[PDF.27pe] Thereby Hangs A Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins

Thereby Hangs A Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins

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 | #1147057 in Books |  2002-10-01 |  2002-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.73 x5.31l,.52 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Delightful browsing|By A. Friedman|This is NOT an etymological reference work (for which I recommend Ayto), but rather a mentally stimulating 300 pages for browsing.

Don't expect to find a particular word and don't try to read it all at once. Instead, keep it by the bedside or in the car and read a page or two when you have a spare minute.

It's a bit dat|About the Author||Charles Earle Funk was editor in chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books on word and phrase origins, including Horsefeathers, Heavens to Betsy!, and Thereby Hangs a Tale.

The Greek root of school means leisure.

A language where hearse and rehearse have the same root and the word dunce comes from a great philosopher, English has hundreds of every day words that originated or acquired their meaning in unusual ways. Dictionaries don't have the space to tell us all the mysteries, but now Dr. Funk, with humor and insight, tells us the strange and intriguing stories of hundreds of words and how they came to be a part of our la...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Thereby Hangs A Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins   |  Charles E. Funk. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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