Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdowns Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English l...Daugiau...
Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdowns Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English l...Daugiau...
This authoritative, entertaining and eminently browsable reference book, arranged in easily accessible A-Z format, is an absorbing and imaginative feast of Scottish lore, language, history and culture, from the mythical origins of the Scots in Scythi...Daugiau...
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This authoritative, entertaining, and eminently browsable reference book, arranged in an easily accessible A-to-Z format, is an absorbing and imaginative feast of Scottish lore, language, history, and culture, from the mythical origins of the Scots i...Daugiau...
Let there be light, A fly in the ointment, New wine in old bottles, How are the mighty fallen, The salt of the earth. All these everyday phrases owe their popularity to the King James Bible. Indeed, it is said that this astonishing Bible h...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Sep-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199585854)
This astonishing book has `contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source, wrote David Crystal in 2004. In Begat he returns to the subject: he asks how a work published in 1611...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Oct-2008, Hardback, Leidėjas: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9781846141980)
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Features vocabulary that is both useful and useless. This title offers an account of the authors coffee-fuelled twelve months lost inside Oxford English Dictionary. Divided into 26 chapters, one per letter of the alphabet, it is filled with curios...Daugiau...
Ostler applies her doctorate in linguistics to entertainingly trace the origin and usage of some 150 distinctly American figures of speech organized into the categories of: the natural world (e.g., talk turkey); business, politics, and society at l...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Jan-2006, Hardback, Leidėjas: BBC Books, ISBN-13: 9780563493365)
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English is a vast, rambling conglomeration of words and phrases from a huge variety of times and places, and every word has its own intriguing history. This book presents the stories behind the words and phrases we use in English....Daugiau...
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Have any idea where the word nerd came from, or twerp? This dictionary starts where ordinary references beg off. Discover that bad hair day was originated by California teenagers in the early 1990s. Learn that bikini comes from the name of a...Daugiau...
Defines terms and phrases that refer to historical events or real and mythical people, including curfew, an Annie Oakley (meaning a free pass), dunce, flying colors, and maverick Presents the definitions and historical backgrounds of over 550...Daugiau...
A dictionary that aims to explain the etymology of expressions such as hand over fist, take a rain-check and dont teach your grandmother to suck eggs....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-1997, Hardback, Leidėjas: St. Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9780312156886)
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A book of trivia for history buffs explores how people lived, what they ate, how they spoke, how they dressed, what games they played, and how their homes looked, from the sixteenth century to the present day. 15,000 first printing....Daugiau...
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This dictionary explains the origin and meaning of such expressions as to pay through the nose, and his name is mud. It takes an informed and wide-ranging approach to problems of etymology, challenging a few theories on the way, and coming up wi...Daugiau...
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This reference book provides comprehensive coverage of important new terms that students are expected to be familiar with, together with extended entries on recent theoretical schools and approaches....Daugiau...
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A reference work which provides the reader with definitions of the important specialist terms used by recent literary critics or theorists. Each entry gives bibliographic information so that terms can be traced back to their original sources....Daugiau...
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The 1979 edition is cited in Sheehy and BCL3 under the title A dictionary of literary terms the truncated title still used in the CIP citation. The new edition has been expanded to encompass literary theory and critical movements, and many of t...Daugiau...
