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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... death nearly seventy years later. After presenting a dazzling panorama of monarchs and monasteries, playwrights and Puritans, sailors and sea serpents, Bibles and bawdy houses, the film finishes by capturing the glory of the Elizabethan ...
... 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 WORDS.
... death by violence”), although the word must have been in circulation before 1521 in order for Fisher to use it in his title. You will notice that the spelling of pernicious has changed since Fisher's day, along with doctryn and agayn ...
... death, his good friend Mike Chernoski published in Old Autos a poem Don had written some time ago: WORDS FROM THE SOUL A voice in the wind whispered to me If you're free, hard work can be fun. So I made up my mind in that moment That 49 ...
... the symbol of darkness and death for the ancient Egyptians (which is why all pyramids were built on the west bank of the Nile, toward the setting sun). Napoleon should have pointed to all the obelisks, for they 52 BILL SHERK.
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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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