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From Old English roots and Shakespearean idioms to Victorian slang and modern online lingo, Jeremy Withers charts a dynamic course through English’s past, present, and future by admiring the plumage of falcons, the songs of sparrows, and the flight of ducks. He uses birds as a point of entry into a key moment in the development of English: its origins in the Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic languages, the influence of writers like Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare, the creation of English’s first dictionaries and grammar books, and the arrival of rhyming slang and portmanteaus. Join the North American Review in welcoming visiting author Jeremy Withers to the UNI campus as part of the Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture Series on Wednesday, November 11, 5:30 pm in Communication Arts Center 108. Book sales and signing to follow.
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