The word that inspired Keywords is culture, a “complex” word Williams traces from its first appearance as a verb to its more popular use as an independent noun. In his celebrated Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (London: Croom Helm, 1976), Raymond Williams presents a selection of English words used in “general conversation” to demonstrate not their misuse by a general public, but how their meanings have changed since their passage into English from the Latin and the French.
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