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You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu: An A-To-Z Guide to English Words from Around the World Hardback - 2000

by Eugene H. Ehrlich

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From one of America's top wordsmiths, a lively survey of words from abroad that make English a truly international language.
With dry wit and remarkable erudition, Eugene Ehrlich takes us on an eye-opening tour of our ever-changing language, showing us how English has, throughout its history, seamlessly sewn words from other languages into its original fabric. The language we call our own has in fact been culled from the languages of ancient invaders, such as the Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, and the French.
Ehrlich's comprehensive research and vast lingual experience bring to light the origins of some of our most popular and well-used words. For example, graffiti is shown to come from the Italian word meaning "scratches." The word for one of our favorite French pastries, eclair, means "lightning flash." And ketchup comes from the Chinese Ke-Jap, which means "fish sauce."
Ehrlich illuminates the origins, purposes, and meanings of once-foreign words that have become part of the rich texture of our language.

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  • Title You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu: An A-To-Z Guide to English Words from Around the World
  • Author Eugene H. Ehrlich
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 285
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-04
  • ISBN 9780805061635 / 0805061630
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 5.77 x 1 in (21.74 x 14.66 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Reference
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99039458
  • Dewey Decimal Code 422.403

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Eugene Ehrlich is co-editor of The Oxford American Dictionary and the author of numerous books on language, including Les Bon Mots, What's in a Name?, and the classic bestseller Amo, Amas, Amat, and More. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.

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