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This course provides an summary of the English vocabulary that is literary, historical, cultural, political, and technological in its range and made to give you better insight into the written and spoken word.The lectures provide a thorough knowledge of the annals of the English vocabulary - from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples through the literary and cultural documents of its 1,500-year period to the state of American speech today. Professor Lerer defines concepts by illustrating them with copious samples. He often talks in the dialect appropriate to each lecture - whether it is Old English, Chaucer's Middle English, or the colloquial style of Tag Twain's most remarkable characters.