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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... Dictionary with this definition: “1) joint heirship; 2) joint ownership.” Apparently even older is coparcener (a joint heir), dating back to at least the fifteenth century. Johannes Gutenberg constructed his first printing press in ...
... dictionary with other words beginning with the same five letters: adult, adulthood, adulterant, adulterate, adulterer, adulteress, adulterine, adulterous and adultery. All of these go back to the Latin adultus, the past participle of ...
... Dictionary traces it back to the Medieval Latin sandalum, santalum, which came from the Greek santalon, sandanon, which in turn probably came from the Sanskrit word candanah. This etymology apparently bears no connection to the other ...
... Dictionary says it first 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 ...
... Dictionary of the word pernicious (a synonym for “destructive” and “ruinous,” from the Latin per, meaning “thoroughly,” and nex, “death by violence”), although the word must have been in circulation before 1521 in order for Fisher to ...
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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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