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Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Salty Dog Talk The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions Author:Bill Beavis, Richard McCloskey Most of us never realize how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases?colorful, bizarre and surprising?and how they came ashore. For anyone with an interest in the sea & its traditions?landlubbers, boaters... more », historians, linguists.« less
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