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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... recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright. Publisher: Anthony Hawke Copy-Editor: Lloyd ...
... recorded in English had to be written out by hand. Imagine copying the entire Bible by hand, as some medieval monks actually did. The farther back we go in time, the less certain we can be of the precise date of a letter, document, book ...
... recorded use of dictionary in an English sentence took place in 1526, in reference to a book compiled by one Peter Bercharius in the fourteenth century: “And so Peter Bercharius in his dictionary describeth it.” In 1538 Sir Thomas Elyot ...
... recorded use of the word vacuum, Latin for “empty,” in the English language. Cranmer didn't exactly coin the word; he just pulled it straight out of Latin and stuck it into English. By the mid-1600s, vacuum came to be applied to a space ...
... recorded use of the word dates back to 1552, when England and Scotland were still two separate countries and the ruins of Hadrian's Wall still stood as a silent reminder that even the Romans themselves could not conquer the wild and ...
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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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