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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... Middle Ages. For fifteen years the strong-willed Henry VII had been sitting on a throne he took by force from Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth Field (“A horse! A horse! — My kingdom for a horse!”), and although old-timers still ...
... Middle English huswif (housewife). Dating from 1955 (only half a century ago!) is the term househusband for “a husband who does housekeeping usually while his wife earns the family income.” The word husband can be traced back to Old ...
... Middle East and China made the construction of chariots necessary. At first, chariot wheels were made of solid wood, bound together by an iron hoop to prevent the wood from splitting when the vehicle bounced over bumpy roads. As ...
... sailed alone. The treasure they brought home from these voyages was the words and the music — such stuff as dreams are made of, outlasting the years.” 1515 DRAMA Plays performed in England in the Middle Ages. 19 500 YEARS OF NEW WORDS.
Bill Sherk. 1515. DRAMA. Plays performed in England in the Middle Ages almost invariably had religious overtones. But by 1500 the impact of the Italian Renaissance was spreading throughout Europe and reaching Britannia's shores. No longer ...
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