Vivian Cook

Words

These are proto-pages for a book It's All in a Word (Sept 2009, Profile)

Word Tests

Texts on Words

Misc  information

Understanding  Shakespeare Words and thinking British words for alleyways; chares
Vocabulary size: basic words  What is a word?

Unique written words

Vocabulary size: advanced words Arbitrariness of meaning Quotes on words
British dialects What does a word mean? Metaphors
American or English words What are dictionaries for? Babytalk words
Guessing in context What's in a word? Bodyparts
Vocabulary learning strategies

New Words

Saying No

Tip of the tongue 

Proper names that become words

English names for foreign parts
Can you talk black? Shakespeare's new words Placenames
How old is your language? Chaucer's new words Frequency

Meaning and Words

Science Fiction Words Word Games

Sound symbolism

Forming new words General Semantics

Letters with meaning

English words in Japanese Dr Johnson's Definitions
Levels of meaning
Word associations

Forms and types of words

Relative Words
Basic English
Measuring meaning

Compounds

Aphasia

Blends Colours

Children's Words

Plural: mice and mouses YouTube Clips

Words and the National Curriculum

Content versus structure words
Pronouns
Infixes inside words
Wine words
Children's Early Words
Children's Two Word Stage

 

"Thus we talk of free enterprise, of capitalist societies, … as though all of these words stand for the same things they formerly did. Social institutions are what they do, not necessarily what we say they do. It is the verb that matters not the noun." Aneurin Bevan, In place of fear