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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... European explorers who crossed the Atlantic and reached the Western Hemisphere five centuries ago. For someone so famous, you might expect the New World to be named after him — but to his dying day in 1506, Christopher Columbus insisted ...
... Europe and reaching Britannia's shores. No longer were plays exclusively religious — now there was a growing interest in reviving the classical Greek plays of ancient times. Many old manuscripts of these plays had lain dormant in ...
... European settlers in America was often just as severe, as a visit to any colonial American cemetery will show. By the eighteenth century, smallpox was so widespread that nearly everyone in Europe and Asia had had the disease at some ...
... European coin novus denarius (the d of which, prior to decimalization in 1971, was the symbol for the English penny). Unfortunately, you can't buy much with a penny anymore — not even a Canadian penny. It now costs about two cents to ...
... Europe from the tropics around 400 B.C. and some ancient Romans had parrots as pets, the news of this bird's existence apparently did not reach England until after the discovery of the New World. The more than three hundred species of ...
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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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