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It's a Wonderful Word

Pocket • 2012 • Engelsk

It's a Wonderful Word

Av Albert Jack

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Om boken

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 brush...Vis mer

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ISBN

9780099562320

Forlag

Arrow Books Ltd

Publiseringsår

2012

Språk

Engelsk

Originaltittel

It's a Wonderful Word

Format

Pocket

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