Gallimaufry: A hodgepodge of our vanishing vocabulary - Hardcover

Quinion, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198610629 ISBN 13: 9780198610625

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2006

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Book by Quinion Michael

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"Michael Quinion, word scholar par excellence, provides an entertaining and informative look at many wonderful words and phrases that have mostly gone by the boards."--Daniel Boice, Catholic Library World "Michael Quinion, word scholar par excellence, provides an entertaining and informative look at many wonderful words and phrases that have mostly gone by the boards."--Daniel Boice, Catholic Library World "Michael Quinion, word scholar par excellence, provides an entertaining and informative look at many wonderful words and phrases that have mostly gone by the boards."--Daniel Boice, Catholic Library World

Reseña del editor:

What is a gallimaufry anyway? And when did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and here Michael Quinion, author of the bestselling POSH and other language myths , has gathered together some fascinating examples of words and meanings which have vanished from our language. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete, sometimes it survives in a figurative sense while the original meaning is lost, and sometimes it simply gives way to a more popular alternative. The story of these and many other words opens a window into the lives of past speakers of the English language.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0198610629
• ISBN 13: 9780198610625
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288