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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... wrote: “Strange that broad America must wear the name of a thief! Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville, who went out in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda, and whose highest naval rank was boatswain's mate, in an expedition that ...
... wrote: “An obtuse angle is that which is greater than a right angle.” An angle of less than ninety degrees is known as an acute angle, from the Latin acutus, meaning sharp. I once knew a math teacher who had a favourite gimmick for any ...
... wrote Utopia, a description of life on an imaginary island. Written in Latin but with a Greek title — utopia literally means “nowhere,” from the Greek ou, meaning “not,” and topos, “a place” — More's book paints a picture of the perfect ...
... wrote these words in 1520: “Torpido is a fisshe, but who-so handeleth hym shalbe lame & defe 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 ...
... wrote: “He used to call a pen his torpedo. Whenever he grasped it, it numbed all his faculties.” In 1807 Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, designed and built submarine explosives to destroy enemy ships. These “floating bombs ...
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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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