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Making Whoopee : Words of Love for Lovers of Words
Evan Morris
Hardcover - $25.95
"Romance is everything," said Gertrude Stein. And for those of us in love with words, the origins of love words have their own romance. So what is the etymology of the word romance? And for that matter, why is it that a kiss is a kiss, a sigh is just ...
New Keywords : A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Meaghan Morris
Paperback - $55.95
Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is justly renowned for its role in providing a whole generation of students and intellectuals with trusty and cogent distillations of the language of cultural studies. First published in ...
Words, Words, Words : Houghmagandie, Knockers, Trolleys & Others
Diarmaid O. Muirithe
Paperback - $42.95
Folk-Etymology : A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions or Words Perverted in Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy
A. Smythe Palmer
Paperback - $87.95
This 1882 work remains unmatched and irreplaceable as an alphabetically arranged dictionary of corrupted or perverted words. The work contains thousands of entries and covers not only English but foreign words and proper names as well as certain spec ...
Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds : Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins
Michael Quinion
Paperback - $20.95
The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for wordlovers delightfully skewers commonly accepted word origin myths and etymological "folk tales." From the bawdy to the sublime, Quinion's explanations ...
Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds : Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins
Michael Quinion
Hardcover - $30.95
The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for wordlovers delightfully skewers commonly accepted word origin myths and etymological "folk tales." The real story of a world or phrase's origin and evol ...
Gallimaufry : A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary
Michael Quinion
Hardcover - $37.95
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 gathe ...
Antike Geographische Namen Nvrdlich Der Alpen : Mit Einem Beitrag Von Hermann Reichert
Gerhard Rasch
Hardcover - $269.95