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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... disease contributed words like smallpox, gonorrhea and virus. But the biggest influx of new words came from the geographical discoveries made possible by the daring sailors and navigators who set out from the seaports of England in ...
... disease, which swept the world in recurring waves and took millions to an early grave. The Spaniards 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 ...
... disease at some point during their lifetime. While smallpox was often fatal (following a high fever, headache, backache and rash), many victims did survive, only to find their faces horribly pockmarked for life. The word comes from Old ...
... disease by the 1850s, and the noun alcoholic, for someone so afflicted, followed soon after. And thanks to that word, author Wayne Oates used the word workaholic in the title of his book in 1971 to describe anyone whose addiction to ...
... disease is probably much older than the word, diabetes, from the Greek dia, meaning “through,” and bainein, “to go,” first appeared in print in English when William Turner in 1562 wrote: “It is good for the flixe to the chamber pot ...
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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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