It's All in a Word

Author / Editor
Cook, Vivian.

Title
It's All in a Word

Published
London: Profile, 2009.

Physical Description
323 pp.

Description
A book "about the different aspects of words" (etymology, morphology, language acquisition, language and cognition, etc.), designed for a popular audience and arranged as a series of 121 topical pieces of varying lengths. Item 54 ("Chaucer's Words," pp.140-41), tallies a number of examples where the OED lists Chaucer as a first user.

Alternative Title
"Chaucer's Words."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies