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Port Out, Starboard Home: and other language myths - Hardcover

Quinion, Michael

 
9780140515343: Port Out, Starboard Home: and other language myths
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0140515348 ISBN 13: 9780140515343
Verlag: Penguin, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet and the use of email has increased the circulation of (usually) false tales about the evolution of language. In this entertaining and fascinating new book on the origins of words and expressions, Michael Quinion retells the mythic tales that have become popular currency - the word 'posh' deriving from 'port out, starboard home' - and also tries to find and explain the true stories behind the origins of phrases. Quinion offers explanations of why and how stories about words are created, and how misunderstanding word origins - while usually harmless - can have serious consequences.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Quinion has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of New Words (2nd edition), edited the weekly Daily Telegraph new words column, and is author of a dictionary of affixes, Ologies and Isms (OUP). Since 1996 he has produced the weekly e-newsletter World Wide Words, which has an associated website. He lives in Bristol.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140515348
ISBN 13 
9780140515343
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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