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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... origins of words and also an appreciation of the times that produced them. Never has history (Bill's academic discipline) been so painless or so illuminating. Open this book and open your mind to a reading and learning experience that ...
... origin, was one of the ten elements known to the ancient world, the other nine being gold, silver, lead, iron, sulphur, mercury, copper, antimony and carbon. Tin was highly prized in the ancient world because, if you added copper to it ...
... of lymmes that he shall fele no thyng.” And that quote explains the origin of the word, which comes from the Latin torpedo, meaning stiffness or numbness. By the end of the 1500s torpedo had broadened its meaning 23 500 YEARS OF NEW WORDS.
... Origin of Species, in which he set forth the theory that forms of life on earth were not divinely created, as the Book of Genesis claimed, but evolved out of other forms of life through a process of natural selection dictated by the ...
... distinguished linguists have tried in earnest to track down its origin, but, according to the OED, no satisfactory explanation as to its etymology has ever been found. We do know, however, that dandruff first appeared in print 38 BILL ...
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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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