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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... John Cabot to sail to the unknown lands across the Atlantic, and Cabot returned to tell about a “newe founde land.” Meanwhile, around the royal court, Henry's four children — two boys and two girls — were growing up. By 1503 one son ...
... John Fisher wrote a pamphlet entitled Sermon ... made to the bottom of the sea. agayn ye pernicyous doctryn of Martin Luther. This is the earliest example listed in the Oxford English Dictionary of the word pernicious (a synonym for ...
... John Russell wrote: “You are daily pestered with business” (an observation most of us can sympathize with today). In 1562 a very relieved Englishman commented upon the peace that Queen Elizabeth had brought to her country after the ...
... John Olde helped to start the new trend when, in 1549, he wrote about “blockheaded asses ... (and) doublefaced frendes.” The American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, was equally fond of this word. One ...
... John Beaumont wrote: “His soft smug words tickle your wanton ear.” In both these quotes, smug is used as a synonym for “neat,” from the Low German smuk, which means “neat.” But the meaning was gradually shifting to describe a self ...
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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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