What goes around : a hundred years of new words -- In the spotlight : the words in the news -- The language innovators : how new words come about -- WAN 2 TLK TXT? -- Words on the catwalk -- Plain cyberspeaking -- Fighting talk : the language of battle -- Talking on message : the new political lexicon -- Riding the soundwaves -- The language traders : business speak -- The word on the pitch : sporting language -- Quotes of the century -- Slanguage on the streets : the new urban slang -- Chewing the linguistic scenery : idioms -- Slogans are forever : the best of advertising -- I'm a celebrity, get me in the the dictionary -- Dinky dirts and Tony Blairs : rhyming slang in the 2000s -- Free comment : the art of the headline -- Sticks and stones -- Apostrophe catastrophes : new trends in grammar and usage -- Crossing continents : US English -- Where global meets local : world English -- Sound and fury : the changing pronunciation of British English -- The sound of American English -- Fictional realities : the language of TV

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