500 Years of New WordsDundurn, 2004 - 312 páginas 500 Years of New Words takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the 21st century. All the main entries are arranged not alphabetically by in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down. Beginning with "America" in 1507 and spanning the centuries to "Marsiphobiphiliac" in 2004 (a person who would love to go to Mars but is afraid of being marooned there), this book can be opened at any page and the reader will discover a dazzling array of linguistic delights. In other words, this book is unputdownable (the main entry for 1947). If Shakespeare were alive today, he would buy this book. |
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... London in 1476. Before this time, anything recorded in English had to be written out by hand. Imagine copying the entire Bible by hand, as some medieval monks actually did. The farther back we go in time, the less certain we can be of ...
... London, who promptly burned them (the Roman Catholic Church adamantly opposed any translations of the Bible lest people — Heaven forfend! — start reading it on their own). Tyndale was certainly onto a good thing while it lasted, with ...
... London in the early 1960s. Anything one disapproved of could be described by the slangy new adjective grotty. 1562. DIABETES. Although the disease is probably much older than the word, diabetes, from the Greek dia, meaning “through,” and ...
... London. In both England and the United States, lotteries were used to finance a variety of worthy projects, including the construction of the British Museum, the installation of guns for the defence of Philadelphia, and the building of ...
... London one being somewhat smaller and lighter due to weathering and chipping, having lain on the ground in Egypt for several hundred years before being erected in England). These obelisks are know as Cleopatra's Needles, although the ...
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500 Years of New Words: the fascinating story of how, when, and why these ... Bill Sherk Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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