Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs
The Secret Life Of The English Language
A more-ishly browsable collection of words and phrases, linguistic quirks, lexical oddities and syntactic surprises.Our langauge is one of delight and curiosity. BUTTERING PARSNIPS, TWOCKING CHAVS is a guided tour of English, exploring the origins of words, their changing meaning, lexical peculiarities, word games and lost words, presented in lists, small passages of narrative text, amusing quotations and nuggets of amazing facts.This must-have compendium shows that words have a matchless power to entertain. Here you will find enough new words and phrases to last a lifetime. Idioms frolic beside cliches, catchphrases, proverbs, eponyms, acron…
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- ISBN: 978-0-297-85686-3
- EAN: 9780297856863
- Produktnummer: 22598860
- Verlag: Orion
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'693 KB
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Martin H. Manser
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