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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... Native peoples of the New World knew nothing of the wheel until it was introduced to them by Europeans. The unknown genius of the Old World who built the first usable wheel probably had no idea what he (or she) was. 16 BILL SHERK.
... native English words were often inadequate to express the ideas in these plays, the natural solution was to anglicize the Greek words. Drama entered the English language in 1515 and was joined by theatre, chorus, comedy, tragedy ...
... carried smallpox to the New World in the early 1500s, where it is said to have been responsible for the death of half the Native population of the Americas (some tribes, including the Mandans and Assiniboins of the. 21 500 YEARS OF NEW ...
... Native words learned in the New World. One of these new words began in ancient Rome, popped up in sixteenth-century England, then took root in America — and that word is congress, from the Latin congressus, “to meet.” When it first ...
... natives bouncing balls made of an elastic substance totally unknown in Europe at that time. The natives made the balls by cutting the bark of a certain tree and scooping up the milky liquid that oozed out. The natives called 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 |
500 Years of New Words: the fascinating story of how, when, and why these ... Bill Sherk Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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