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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... earliest specific year it can be dated from is 1509. This word started out in English as a synonym for dull, stupid or insensible, as in “an obtuse fellow” or “an obtuse remark,” from the Latin obtundere, obtusum, “dull” or “blunt.” By ...
... earliest wheels were probably round slabs of stone used for grinding grain, or sections of a log joined together by a crude axle. The wheel began to improve when the art of warfare in the Middle East and China made the construction of ...
... earliest example listed in the Oxford English Dictionary of the word pernicious (a synonym for “destructive” and “ruinous,” from the Latin per, meaning “thoroughly,” and nex, “death by violence”), although the word must have been in ...
... earliest appearance in print has been dated at 1522, when Sir Thomas More wrote: “Some wretches yet scant can crepe for age ... walk pit pat vpon a paire of patens.” In 1601 the Elizabethan poet Ben Jonson set the word in a romantic ...
... earliest English example of this word, which comes from the Dutch rights and died heavily in debt. schrabben, “to scratch or scrape,” can be found in a translation of the Bible that was published in 1537: “And he ... scrabled on 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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