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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... discovered the rewards to be had in creating brand new words. If you haven't yet read Bill's splendid Brave New Words or its sequel More Brave New Words — in which you will be exposed to such creative neologisms as “accident-dent-dent ...
... discovery of the New World. The more than three hundred species of parrot (from the French perroquet, meaning “parrot”) are widely distributed through the tropical regions of the world, with the Amazon parrot — bright green and yellow ...
... discovered he had a rubber that stayed flexible when cold, yet dry and firm when warm. He called the new product ... discovery paved the way for our modern rubber industry, but Goodyear himself spent the rest of his life fighting to ...
... discovered the year before by the Italian astronomer Galileo. Kepler's choice was a good one because those moons follow the mighty planet Jupiter around the sun just as faithfully as those hangers-on in the streets of Rome. 1549.
... discovered in 1856.) The coins from Joachimsthal were called thalers, dalers, dallers or dollars, and the word reached England by 1553. It was slow to catch on in England itself because the English were using pounds, shillings and pence ...
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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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