Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, 17th edition - Couverture rigide

Ayto, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0304357839 ISBN 13 : 9780304357833

Editeur : Chambers, 2005

Synopsis

" there's never a dull moment to be had with this great, daft, pointless, wonderful brick of a book' ' Amazon.co.uk First published in 1870, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer's treasury of 'words that have a story to tell' is one of the world's best-loved reference books. At the heart of the dictionary lie entries on the meaning and origin of a vast range of words and expressions, from everyday English phrases to Latin tags. For the 17th edition of Brewer's, new editor John Ayto has revised and updated the existing text and added 1500 new articles. The latter include recent words and phrases (Al-Qaeda, 9/11), characters, places (and monsters) from recent fantasy literature (including The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter), famous political and sporting nicknames (Butcher of Baghdad, Goldenballs) and ' continuing the century-old Brewer's practice of recording unexpected and fascinating information not available in other general reference books ' 'list entries' as diverse as misattributed quotations, first lines of novels, French/Spanish/German/Italian idioms and the 'etymologies' of rock group names.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Ayto is a writer and lexicographer and the co-author of Brewer's Britain and Ireland (W & N, May 2005). His authorial credits include The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang and The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins. He lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chambers
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0304357839
• ISBN 13: 9780304357833
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1560
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible