The Story of a Word - Softcover

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Words have fascinating and often funny stories. Pants, for example, have something to do with puppets and Venice, calendars come from shouting, and our monthly salary actually means salt-money, a word that originated during the Roman Empire when soldiers were given a salarium to buy salt, which was at the time very important to preserve food, yet hard to obtain. "The Story of a Word" is a children's non-fiction book, explaining the etymologies of approximately 50 commonly used words. The book aims to show how rich words are, and help the young readers discover something new in words they have been using for a long time.

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