Linguistics - Etymology
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Writing Workbook: Ages 3-5
$6.99 Read moreThis range of Maths and English activity books really helps to boost your child s progress at every stage of their learning. The series aims to build up important skills through activity-packed fun.
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- Series: Collins Easy Learning Preschool
- Author: Collins Uk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: March 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0008151628
- Language: English
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Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms
$22.95 Read moreThree centuries of English idioms–their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations
To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. W- Author: Liberman, Anatoly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914124
- Language: English
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
$20.00 Add to cartThis perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example, do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have g… [more below]
- Author: Forsyth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0425260798
- Language: English
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Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions
$25.00 Add to cartWords confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate.
The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word o
- Author: Ott, Jason Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 7-Nov-23
- ISBN10: 1682687996
- Language: English
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Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language
$26.00 Read more“A truly delightful smorgasbord of history and linguistics that kept us entertained–and made us hungry.”
“Scrumptious…This book was meant to be devoured.”
–Apple Books
–Roy Peter Clark, author- Author: Tschann, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 316389374
- Language: English
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
$21.99 Read moreWhere did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder, anger, and umpire originally spelled? The answers can be found in this essential companion to a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Quick Reference
- Author: Hoad, T. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 29 1993
- ISBN10: 0192830988
- Language: English
