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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English AUTH-9499681 McCarthy's warmAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Secret Life of Words is a wide ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trickled in gradually over hundreds of years of trade, colonization, and diplomacy. Henry Hitchings narrates the story from the Norman Conquest to the present day,