Words in Time and Place —— Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

----- 恰当的时间和地点说的恰当的话-通过牛津英语词典的历史宝库探究语言

ISBN: 9780199680474 出版年：2014 页码：305 Crystal, David Oxford University Press

How has the English language developed over time? How have words entered the English language, or changed their meaning? David Crystal takes us on a wonderful tour through the origins and evolution of 15 groups of words, from dying to spacecraft. His source is the monumental Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.