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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... writing about Archbishop Morton, a tax-collecting genius during the reign of King Henry VII (1485–1509) who turned that grasping and greedy ruler into a very wealthy monarch. Under what came to be known as “Morton's fork,” if you were ...
... writers as early as the thirteenth century, it described lists of Latin words and phrases. The first recorded use of dictionary in an English sentence took place in 1526, in reference to a book compiled by one Peter Bercharius in the ...
... writing with your left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?' 'I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other,' he added, glaring at the defence table.” 1533. SINCERE. Caveat emptor means “let the buyer beware.” Your ...
... writer named Golding wrote about “the Atheistes which appeared in the mid-1500s. which say ... there is no God.” The word, from the Greek a, “not,” and theos, “a god,” first appeared in an England that was just beginning to accustom ...
... writing in the September 9, 1967, issue of Saturday Review: “Corresponding to our assorted bow-wow, woof-woof, yip-yip and arf-arf we find French oua-oua (pronounced 'wahwah'), Italian bu-bu, Spanish guau-guau or jau-jau (pronounced ...
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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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