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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... the Native peoples of the New World knew nothing of the wheel until it was introduced to them by Europeans. The unknown genius of the Old World who built the first usable wheel probably had no idea what he (or she) was. 16 BILL SHERK.
Bill Sherk. wheel probably had no idea what he (or she) was starting. The 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 ...
... (probably by the eighteenth century), dandelion appeared as dent de lion, dentdelyon, dantdelyon, and dendelion. The spelling may have varied, but the etymology did not. Dent de lion came from French, meaning “tooth of the lion,” because ...
... probably because the boots and gaiters and leggings it used to describe are either no longer worn or are called by other names. And although the Oxford English Dictionary says it first appeared in print in 1517, no one knows quite when ...
... (probably because of their shape or “sting”), they were really mines. The first modern selfpropelled torpedo was developed around 1875 by a British engineer, Robert Whitehead, who employed steam propulsion and a gyroscope to send it to ...
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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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