by John Ayto · Pearson College Div · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582037717
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«The Longman Register of New Words» is John Ayto's dictionary of neologisms, published in 1989 by Pearson College Div in paperback (448 pages, in English).
It collects over 1200 new words and senses of English that appeared in the press worldwide, mainly between 1987 and 1988. Each entry includes the word, its definition, and a journalistic quotation documenting its use, as well as comments on the origin and evolution of each term.
It is volume 1 of the Longman Register of New Words series, conceived to periodically collect English neologisms.
A reference work for university students and scholars of English interested in the recent evolution of the lexicon.
