Search - Off the Clock : A Lexicon of Time Words and Expressions

With entries ranging from "Dog Days," and "Cock's Crow," to the Japanese "nemawashi" - the amount of time needed for a group of people to agree on something - Off the Clock is a wonderfully varied collection of words used to talk about time, and of the legends, historical anecdotes, proverbs, and scientific facts that explain the expressions.
Even ordinary words like "day," "week," "month," "year" - are revealed to be full of surprises. For instance two hundred years ago the French "week" was ten days long.
This lexicon is a fascinating exploration of time, culture, history, and language.