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Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions - And More Than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases - Hardcover

Rawson, Hugh

 
9780517580660: Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions - And More Than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0517580667 ISBN 13: 9780517580660
Verlag: Crown Pub, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Offers information about the odd origins of such diverse words and phrases as condom, sirloin, horse latitudes, harlot, and shyster

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hugh Rawson is the author of Wicked Words and A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk. He is a member of The Authors Guild, and is Director of Penguin Reference Books.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

Aus dem Klappentext

elously entertaining book, word maven Hugh Rawson rounds up 1,000 words and phrases whose origins are not what you might expect. Some wiseacre (the word has nothing to do with land measure) may have told you that a tip is given to a waiter "to insure promptness," or that S.O.S. stands for "Save Our Ship," or that hooker is a tribute to the character of Joseph Hooker, the Civil War general. Like hundreds of popular etymologies, these oft-repeated accounts are just too good to be true. Now Mr. Rawson punctures the myths, gives the real derivations, and along the way provides many insights into how language works.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

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Verlag
Crown Pub
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0517580667
ISBN 13 
9780517580660
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
245
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