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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 30
... Spanish to caucho . We would probably have a similar term in widespread use in English today had not the English chemist Joseph Priestley noticed , around 1770 , that this elastic substance was useful for rubbing out pencil marks . He ...
... foreign currencies , including the Spanish peso , a gold coin that circulated widely in the British North American colonies prior to and during the American Revolution . When the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, Britain 42 BILL SHERK.
... Spanish coin), bore on its surface the letter S as a partial representation of the figure eight, and two vertical strokes representing the Pillars of Hercules, the ancient name for the Strait of Gibraltar. 1554. MAYPOLE. Since prehistoric ...
... Spanish adaptation , huracan , of a Native Caribbean word for those cat- astrophic storms defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as follows : “ a severe tropical cyclone with winds exceeding seventy - five miles per hour ...
... Spanish colonies in the West Indies. Then he tried capturing slaves himself to eliminate the Portuguese middlemen, but in the battle that ensued he lost a number of his own men. Gradually, many of the Africans along the coast became ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
Pasajes populares
Referencias a este libro
A B C Et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet Alexander Humez,Nicholas D. Humez Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
60 Years Behind the Wheel: The Cars We Drove in Canada, 1900-1960 Bill Sherk Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |