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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20130122

Book of World Records and in those days in order to get in the guinness book you had to or push a painted across iowa with your nose. When id looked in the guinness book i came upon a word that had the most meaning in english which was set in for. It had 137 meanings. But it was one of the words with the most meanings. The soft underbelly of this book was language and words so i started working on a collection of words and i have now gone through seven or eight collections and in fact there are people in this room who have added to the collection in the last 72 hours. We are now up to almost 3000 words. What was interesting about it was it was not meant to be a celebration of what is a social ill but it was to show the phenomenal sort of what the english language is. And what really got to me was looking at all the people that collected a list of drunkenness from their time. Tom paine
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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20130202

And then immediately after the First World War or the second world war, sorry, we had the only major incidence of increased fertility rate, and thats the baby boom. Everybody knows about the baby boom. And it really was a remarkable moment, because not only did the fertility rate increase quite high, as high as 3. 7, i think, for white americans and, i think, 3. 9 for black americans, not only did it jump up, but it stayed up for an entire generation. It was a really long lasting effect. People changed the way they lived for a generation, and then by 1970 that momentum had ended, and we saw not a gradual floatdown, but really dropping off a cliff. Jonathan last on how changing demographics and birthrates could cause the u. S. To lose its place as a world leader sunday night at 9 eastern on after words on cspan2. And look for more online. Like us on facebook. Next on booktv, paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized ....

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