It's a Wonderful Word
The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words
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Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap ? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados ? In It's a Wonderful Word , bestselling author Albert Jack collects over 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding and most delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins. While brushing up on your gibberish or gobbledygook , discover why bastards should resent travelling salesmen, why sheets should remain on tenterhooks and why you should never set down a tumbler before finishing your drink. From blotto to bamboozle and from claptrap to quango , Albert Jack's addictive anecdotes bring the world's most colourful language to life and are guaranteed to surprise and entertain.
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It's a Wonderful Word, Albert Jack
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- 2012
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- (Tapa blanda)
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- Título
- It's a Wonderful Word
- Subtítulo
- The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Albert Jack
- Editorial
- Arrow Books
- Publicado en
- 2012
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0099562324
- ISBN13
- 9780099562320
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Tema histórico, Comercio, Guías y Manuales, Humor, Tecnología, Educación, Sociedad, Feminismo, Lingüística, Paternidad, Escritura, Cultura, Historia social, Innovación, Civilización, Jack el Destripador
- Calificación
- 3,25 de 5
- Descripción
- Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap ? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados ? In It's a Wonderful Word , bestselling author Albert Jack collects over 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding and most delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins. While brushing up on your gibberish or gobbledygook , discover why bastards should resent travelling salesmen, why sheets should remain on tenterhooks and why you should never set down a tumbler before finishing your drink. From blotto to bamboozle and from claptrap to quango , Albert Jack's addictive anecdotes bring the world's most colourful language to life and are guaranteed to surprise and entertain.