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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... later learned of the role Columbus had played in these discoveries, he dropped the name “America” from his maps and ... later acquired the additional verb use “to fondle,” which applied at first to pet animals, but was later 15 500 YEARS ...
Bill Sherk. which applied at first to pet animals, but was later extended to the fondling of someone's erogenous zones, as in “necking and petting.” With the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s, petting as a term with sexual overtones began ...
... later. After presenting a dazzling panorama of monarchs and monasteries, playwrights and Puritans, sailors and sea serpents, Bibles and bawdy houses, the film finishes by capturing the glory of the Elizabethan age with these stirring ...
... later used to describe a gaiter or legging (from the phrase “start up,” as in “a shoe that starts up to the middle of the leg”). This word is now classified as obsolete, probably because the boots and gaiters and leggings it used to ...
... later, the boy was inoculated with smallpox and remained healthy and normal. The cure worked. Since then, millions of people have received smallpox vaccinations, and the disease has been virtually eliminated from Europe, North America ...
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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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