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How Language Changes  
New words and the shifting meanings of old words. How prefixes, suffixes, and Latin influences expanded the vocabulary of Shakespeare's Renaissance England; five factors that predict whether a new word will last; how demographic change and increasing multilingualism are reshaping the role of English in the world.
Program 170
  Participants
Lynne Magnusson
Allan Metcalf
Richard Bailey

 

 
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