Dictionary of English Down the Ages - Softcover

Flavell, Linda; Flavell, Roger

 
9781856266031: Dictionary of English Down the Ages
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1856266036 ISBN 13: 9781856266031
Verlag: Kyle Cathie, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on the way we speak. Columbus's discovery of America introduced to Europe new foodstuffs such as chilli and chocolate - and the words that described them. The Normans gave us the feudal system and curfews, while the flourishing of Dutch art in the seventeenth century introduced easels, etchings and landscapes. Before the 1970s green was a colour with connotations of naivety rather than ecology and until 1990 webs were mostly attached to spiders. Starting from 1066 and working through to modern-day techno-speak, Dictionary of English Down the Ages links hundreds of words with the historical upheavals and minor social changes which gave them life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Linda and Roger Flavell have been studying the oddities of English for over 25 years. Their other books for Kyle Cathie are Dictionary of Idioms (of which a completely revised edition will be published in May 2005), Dictionary of Word Origins and Dictionary of Proverbs.

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Verlag
Kyle Cathie
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1856266036
ISBN 13 
9781856266031
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
318
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