The Fascinating Stories Behind Everyday Words

Skim through any English dictionary and you find the richest of vocabularies. Add the hundreds of colourful catchphrases that pepper our speech and you have a linguistic palette beyond compare. But where did it all come from? The Origins of Words and Phrases tells you exactly that, with the intriguing tales of more than 3,00 English utterances.
 

  • The Bible, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron and Rudy Kipling - which of them gave use, 'never the twain shall meet', 'fly in the ointment' and 'truth is stranger than fiction'?
  • Kowtow and kosher, magazine and muffin top, trek and tsunami - follow the epic voyages into English of words from China, India, Persia, South Africa, Australia and all place in between
  • From advertising and Hindi to texting and Yiddish - 38 features on the big influences on English
  • More than 100 fun and informative cartoons and illustrations

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ISBN 9781921344770
Condition USED
Publisher READER'S DIGEST
Shipping Weight 0.3000kg
Type Book
Format Hardback

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