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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... someone so famous, you might expect the New World to be named after him — but to his dying day in 1506, Christopher Columbus insisted he had not found an unknown continent, but rather had reached an unexplored part of eastern Asia ...
... 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 to fade away as many couples went straight from kissing to coitus. 1509. OBTUSE. Although ...
... Someone who pesters is a pest, and among the most pestiferous of all creatures, in the eyes of man, are the insects. And because chemical sprays were developed in the twentieth century to keep these pests under control, a new word ...
... someone looking for a little romance. When he got the book home, he opened it only to discover he had purchased Volume. 1532. AMBIDEXTER. Today, we are more familiar with the adjectival form of this word — Seven of the Encyclopedia ...
... someone eavesdropped just outside a Roman house where some Christians were meeting in secret to celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion. The eavesdropper's eyes must have widened with horror when he hear these words from within: “Take ...
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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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