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New York. 1985. Watts. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0531097722. 293 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Reference Words . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Hidden away within dictionaries are a vast number of unlikely, surprising and even incredible stories about the origin of English words and phrases. James McDonald has produced a highly entertaining book, with each of some thirty chapters devoted to a single topic such as medicine, magic, law, religion, money, drink and sex. Liberally sprinkled with amusing stories, each chapter shows how the language associated with these topics has evolved over the ages. The chapter on drinks, for example, can tell you not only the origin of groggy' (suffering from the effects of watered-down rum), Codswallop (drink sold in bottles of a type patented by Hiram Codd), but also the reason why a Long Slow Comfortable Screw' should be so-called. Did you know cretin' and Christian' shared the same origin or that the exclamation…
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- Title Wordly Wise
- Author James McDonald
- Binding Hardcover
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- Pages 293
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Franklin Watts, New York
- Date 1985
- ISBN 9780531097724 / 0531097722
- Library of Congress subjects English language - Etymology, English language - Terms and phrases
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 84051219
- Dewey Decimal Code 422
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