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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... 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 will leave you richly satisfied and greatly entertained. Tl1e ...
... Produced by the British Transport Corporation in 1957, this film chronicles the life and times of Elizabeth I, “the Virgin Queen” of England, from her birth in 1533 (“She had been but a baby when her mother knelt at the block”) to her ...
... produced. The word money goes back to the Roman goddess Juno Moneta, whose temple was built on the Capitoline Hill (making her the first capitalist) and who became the guardian of Roman finances. Her second name, Moneta, comes from the ...
... Rome — not because of Martin Luther but because he wanted a divorce from a wife who had failed to produce a male heir to the English throne? 1522 PIT-A-PAT Back in prehistoric times, when word coiners had. 24 BILL SHERK.
... produce a male heir for the English throne. Now she was too old to bear children, and Henry wanted a divorce so that he could marry the younger (and presumably more fecund) Anne Boleyn. But the Pope in Rome said no. Henry then spent 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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