Book review: New Words For Old - Recycling Our Language For The Modern World

OUR language had smoke and fog for a long time before we needed to combine them to describe “smog”.

And a “folder” only got its name because it’s made by folding a piece of card.

Caroline Taggart’s latest lexical offering — her previous books covered grammar, idioms and “words you should know” — looks at how English repurposes its existing components when up against new concepts and inventions.