Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins - Couverture souple

Funk, Charles Earle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006091260X ISBN 13 : 9780060912604

Editeur : HarperReference, 1985

Synopsis

Book by Funk Charles Earle

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Greek root of school means leisure.

A language where hearse and rehearse have the same root and the word dunce comes from a great philosopher, English has hundreds of every day words that originated or acquired their meaning in unusual ways. Dictionaries don't have the space to tell us all the mysteries, but now Dr. Funk, with humor and insight, tells us the strange and intriguing stories of hundreds of words and how they came to be a part of our language.

Biographie de l'auteur

Charles Earle Funk was editor in chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books on word and phrase origins, including Horsefeathers, Heavens to Betsy!, and Thereby Hangs a Tale.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperReference
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 006091260X
• ISBN 13: 9780060912604
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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