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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... roots to fall back on, most new words were coined through onomatopoeia. Pit-a-pat, the sound of a rapidly beating heart, light and rapid footsteps, or any similar series of alternating sounds, probably has a history as old as language ...
... root in America — and that word is congress, from the Latin congressus, “to meet.” When it first appeared in print in England in 1528, it simply meant a meeting or interview. By 1589 it had acquired the additional meaning of sexual ...
... root senex, meaning “old man.” That root also gives us the word senile, a fact to which senators. 1529. PERIWIG. If you wear a wig, you are wearing an abbreare not likely to draw your attention. viated word. Just as the word bus is short ...
... root comes our modern word sincere, which means “without deceit.” 1534. PAPIST. After twenty years of marriage to Catherine of Aragon, King Henry VIII of England was getting restless. After several miscarriages and stillbirths, his wife ...
... root venter that gives us this entry, also gives us the word ventriloquist (see page 108), because people who can speak in that fashion were at one time believed to be speaking from the belly. 1545. DANDRUFF. Although everyone today knows ...
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500 Years of New Words: the fascinating story of how, when, and why these ... Bill Sherk Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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