Dictionary Box Set - Softcover

Flavell, Linda; Flavell, Roger

 
9780857833471: Dictionary Box Set
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0857833472 ISBN 13: 9780857833471
Verlag: KYLE BOOKS, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

The English language contains a great store of idioms that can be used in creative and forceful ways and throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on the way we speak. Columbus's discovery of America introduced to Europe new food stuffs such as chilli and chocolate-and the words that described them. The Dictionary Box set links hundreds of words with the historical upheavals and minor social changes which gave them life, and gives explanation and meaning to the thousands of idioms we use in everyday conversations and which seem to be completely illogical. And if you have ever noticed that 'out of sight, out of mind' and 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' can't both be true, this box set will solve your perplexity, tracing the origins of over 400 of these invaluable pieces of wisdom. The result is essential reading for anyone who delights in words.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Linda and Roger Flavell have been studying the oddities of English for over 25 years.Linda has worked as a writer and as an English teacher both in England and overseas and has co-authored several dictionaries of etymologies for Kyle Books. Roger also travelled widely and was a Lecturer in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Their other books include A Dictionary of English Down the Ages, Dictionary of Word Origins and Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins.Linda and Roger Flavell have been studying the oddities of English for over 25 years.Linda has worked as a writer and as an English teacher both in England and overseas and has co-authored several dictionaries of etymologies for Kyle Books. Roger also travelled widely and was a Lecturer in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Their other books include A Dictionary of English Down the Ages, Dictionary of Word Origins and Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins.

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Verlag
KYLE BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0857833472
ISBN 13 
9780857833471
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
1120
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