A miscellany for word lovers : origins, meanings and quizzes /: origins, meanings and quizzes. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robin Hoise and Vic Mayhew.
• Authors: Hosie, Robin; Mayhew, Vic
• Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Words About Words; Names into Words; The Moving Finger Writes; Figures of Speech; Journey to the Centre of the Earth; Fears and Phobias; Behind the Word; Brush Up Your Latin; Politics and Government; Proverbs in Parallel; Business and Finance; Earth's Long Journey through the Ages; World Religions; Behind the Phrase; Birds of a Feather; The Law of the Land; Movie Memories; The Heavens Above; Parlez-vous Français?; Round Britain Word Tour; Sprechen Sie Deutsch?; The Language of Science; Cut Through Confusion; The King James Bible. Unwanted Words, Fit for Export OnlyPolari Comes Out of the Closet; Shakespeare's Gifts; Anagrams: Switching Letters to Make a Point; The Aussie Way with Words; Chaucer: Midwife of the English Language; Counting Sheep; The Secret Language of Savile Row; The Man Who Was Far From Gruntled; Invasion of the Vikings; The Anglo-Saxons Arrive; Quote or Misquote?; Divided by a Common Language; As Others See Us ... and We See Them; At War with the Language; Celts and Romans; Approaching the End; Music Has Charms; The Greek Prefix Epi-; Turning Back; The Latin Prefix Ir-; Opposites and Near Opposites. Spoken in AngerMedical Matters; Complementary Medicine; The Latin Prefix In-; Winds of the World; It Takes All Kinds; Buildings, Sacred and Secular; Digging Up the Past; Sport in Spain; Volcanoes and Earthquakes; Muscles and Bones; Headlines Make the News; Military Matters; In at the Start; Pick and Mix; Valley Speak; The Twenty-first Century; The Nineties (1990-99); The Eighties (1980-89); The Seventies (1970-79); The Sixties (1960-69); The Fifties (1950-59); The Second World War and Austerity (1939-50); The Thirties (1930-39); Animal Quackers; Drek, Schlep and Schmaltz; The Roaring Twenties. The First World War (1914-18) and the Treaty of Versailles (1919)1900-1914; The Seventeenth Century; The Sixteenth Century; Samuel Johnson Calls the Language to Order; The Menacing World of Orwell's Newspeak; Acknowledgements; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : How To Books, an imprint of Constable & Robinson
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 428.1; Vocabulary -- Miscellanea; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Vocabulary; Electronic books; Miscellanea
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472110152; 1472110153
• Related ISBNs: 9781845285159
• ISSNs: 7497-3547
• Notes: Note: Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
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