# The 100 Words That Make The English

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- Authors: [Tony Thorne](https://www.bookquiver.com/tony-thorne)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-04-07

## Description

Englishness is an ancient and powerful concept, but no one seems sure exactly what it means in the twenty-first century. In exploring our national identity, Tony Thorne has compiled a fascinating compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have become the cornerstones of modern English, and have been used - sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently - to stake out our common ground, to define what makes us essentially English, and thus different from those beastly foreigners who lurk just off our shores.

## Editions

### The 100 Words That Make The English

- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4813-174-7
- Published: 2011-06-02
- Language: en_GB

### The 100 Words That Make The English

- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4912-103-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB