[PDF.65nc] Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of our Vanishing Vocabulary

Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of our Vanishing Vocabulary

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 | #3338388 in Books |  2006-11-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.30 x1.10 x7.80l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating word origins.|By John Fulford|This is a book for those who are intrigued by the extraordinary variety of English words. Written by an expert and extremely well researched it is also light reading that can be put down and picked up any time. As an author, I was fascinated by the wide variety and strange histories of the words and learned something new on every page,| ||"Michael Quinion, word scholar par excellence, provides an entertaining and informative look at many wonderful words and phrases that have mostly gone by the boards."--Daniel Boice, Catholic Library World|||About the Auth

When did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock?

Language is always changing, and in Gallimaufry: A Hodge-Podge of Words Vanishing from Our Vocabulary Michael Quinion has gathered together some fascinating examples of words and meanings which have vanished from our language. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete, sometimes ...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of our Vanishing Vocabulary   |  Michael Quinion. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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