[PDF.88mx] Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities

Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities

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 | #568104 in Books |  2016-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.40 x.60 x5.60l,.0 | File type: PDF | 216 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Cast a spell of words on me.|By Stephen John Smoogen|I have followed Paul Anthony Jones and his friend Haggard's twitter account for a while which have been entertaining but due to the broken nature of twitter harder to see what the trends of thought that lead to various words being related. This book puts all those thought patterns down into a stream which I found enjoyable re| ||?Jones takes us back in time, and his love of language and engaging writing provides a reminder of how fun, whimsical, puzzling, and enjoyable language is.??PopMatters|About the Author|Paul Anthony Jones

From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for ?stumbling block? and originally described a trap for a wild animal? In nineteenth-century slang a wolf trap was a corrupt casino. Casino means ?little house? in Italian. Roulette means ?little wh...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities   |  Paul Anthony Jones. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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