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"Tea" (a social word from the 17th century) is one of the words David Crystal examines in his book The Story of English In 100 Words.

"Tea" (a social word from the 17th century) is one of the words David Crystal examines in his book The Story of English In 100 Words.

This interview was originally broadcast on April 2, 2012.

Linguist David Crystal describes English as a "vacuum cleaner of a language." Speakers merrily swipe some words from other languages, adopt others because they're cool or sound classy, and simply make up other terms.

In his new book, he tells The Story of English in 100 Words, using a collection of words classic ones like "tea" and new words like "app" that explain how the the English language has evolved.

Crystal thinks every word has a story to tell, even the ones as commonplace as "and."

"Poor little words like 'and,' and 'the,' and 'of' ... they don't get any press at all," Crystal tells NPR's Neal Conan. "And this is a great shame, because without them, we have no syntax. We have no grammar. The whole language falls apart."

Crystal discusses the idiosyncrasies of the English language and some of his favorite words that made the list.

On the English language as a vacuum cleaner

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From 'App' To 'Tea': English Examined In '100 Words'

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E-Rate

Congress created the E-Rate program in 1996 to help schools and libraries keep up with the cost of providing Internet and telecommunications access.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 provided a fund of $2.25 billion annually to be distributed to these entities.

While it is not funded by taxpayer dollars, telecommunications companies pass their costs along to customers through a charge on their bills, sometimes labeled as Federal Universal Service Fund.

The program reimburses schools and libraries for 20 to 90 percent of their costs to provide telecommunications and Internet access, including internal connections and basic maintenance as well as usage costs.

The discount provided is based on the level of poverty of the children served.

For example, Coachella Valley Unified School District has received 88 to 90 percent reimbursement in the past three years, Palm Springs Unified has received 82 to 86 percent and Desert Sands Unified has received 70 to 76 percent.

Schools are required to submit a technology plan and use a competitive bidding process to find vendors and meet other requirements to receive funding.

In 2011, the program distributed nearly $2.23 billion.

E-Rate funds are distributed by the Universal Service Administrative Company, which was designated by the Federal Communications Commission.

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Coachella Valley Unified students remain frozen in digital divide

MORE INTERVIEWS:Crowne Plaza Invitational at ColonialDOUG MILNE:Jason Dufner, thanks for joining us for a few minutes one last time here at the 2012 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. All in all a really great couple of weeks. The only one hiccup on the 15th hole today didn't end up the way we wanted.

You still got to be feeling pretty good about the last couple of weeks and your play here this week at Colonial.

JASON DUFNER:Yes, definitely the last month of golf, the last three months of golf has been a pretty good run. Today, obviously, a little disappointing to play that poorly and not kind of have a chance there at the end. I thought we were looking at another duel kind of coming into 18 with Zach and I because we were both back and forth, kind of struggling, both of us a little bit. But it wasn't meant to be today and that's about it.

Q. Jason, did fatigue --

JASON DUFNER:I feel pretty good actually. I felt really good yesterday. I probably felt the best I had all week today. I felt pretty good. I just played really poorly today.

Q. Can you go through what happened at 15, what did you hit off the tee?

JASON DUFNER:I hit a 3 wood off the tee. The fairways were chasing a little bit more today. I've been underneath that bunker with 3 wood, just rolled into it. I had 142 or 3 yards, a little wind in and off the right. I hit a 9 iron probably a little bit further left than I was looking, but still that's a pretty long 9 iron for me out of the bunker into the wind. Just pitched it on the back, and it barely trickled over in the water, and you are pretty much dead back there. I probably could have made a 6 pretty easily. It turned out to be a 7 and turned out to be the difference in the tournament.

Q. It looked like on the tee shot on 17, on your follow through, your shot drifted right, and you dropped your club in it, it just sort of looked like you had a moment like you couldn't believe you had run into this stretch?

JASON DUFNER:No, I could believe it. It was happening.

Q. Why, because you had been playing so well in that four or five hole stretch, it didn't seem like anything worked? Could you believe you had run into that kind of luck, or bad luck?

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