[PDF.13gd] Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words

Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words

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 | #37925 in Books |  Arcade Publishing |  2011-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x6.10 x6.00l,1.53 | File type: PDF | 592 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Four Stars|By Robert Horn|Good research tool|0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By tr|Great product|4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Great book|By Russell|The origins of words in a must for any persons studying languages. I would re|About the Author|John Atyo is a writer and lexicographer. He is the author (with Ian Crofton) of Brewer’s Britain and Ireland. His authorial credits include The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins

What is the link between map and apron, acrobat and oxygen, zeal and jealousy, flour and pollen, secret and crime? Did you know that crimson originally comes from the name of tiny scale insects, the kermes, from whose dried bodies a red dyestuff is made? That Yankee began as a nickname for Dutchmen? That omelette evolved from amulette, “a thin sheet of metal,” and is a not-too- distant cousin of the word laminate? That jeans find their antecedent in jean fust...

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