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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... appeared as a verb as early as 1515 , when it meant “ to break wind , ” from the Italian petto , “ to fart , ” presumably coined , like fart itself , by way of onomatopoeia . It later acquired the additional verb use “ to fondle ...
... appeared in print in English in 1511 ( the earliest example yet found ) , the word sandal , as a synonym for sandalwood , appeared as early as 1400. The wood itself is used for cabinet making and wood carvings , while the oil extracted ...
... appeared as dent de lion, dentdelyon, dantdelyon, and dendelion. The spelling may have varied, but the etymology did not. Dent de lion came from French, meaning “tooth of the lion,” because of the tooth-shaped green leaves that surround ...
Bill Sherk. synonym had appeared for this plant : pissabed , so called because of the ability of the dandelion , if ingested , to make one urinate . In 1822 , in Good's Study of Medicine , we are reminded that pissabed is not fit for ...
... appeared in print in 1517 , no one knows quite when it died . Although most of the entries in this book are words that are still flourishing today , startup and a few other archaic entries have been included to remind us that some words ...
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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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