Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi

Title:: Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi
Description:: View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-do-new-words-come-from-marcel-danesi

There are over 170,000 words currently in use in the English language. Yet every year, about a thousand new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Where do they come from, and how do they make it into our everyday lives? Marcel Danesi explains how new words enter a language.

Lesson by Marcel Danesi, animation by TOGETHER.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TED-Ed
Duration:: 05:44

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