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The
English language is vast, flexible, fascinating, frustrating,
challenging, inspiring and endlessly changing. To take it
for granted is to miss much of its richness and complexity.
Understanding some of the story of how English has developed
over the past millennium gives us fresh ways of looking at
the familiar, tools to appreciate the styles of so many great
writers and a creative springboard into the language of the
future.
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In
Origins, explore a range of texts from across time
and discover some of the roots of the language. |
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In
Changing Times, compare the language of the past
with English today and find how so many rich strands of
vocabulary developed. |
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In
Word Building, look at the processes of word construction
and at the never-ending borrowing of words. |
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And
in Cutting Edge, look at the uses and creative
potential of English today, remembering that the future
of the language now lies in the hands of your generation.
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