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Search - Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins
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Thereby Hangs a Tale Stories of Curious Word Origins Author: Did you know? The Greek root of school means leisure. — A language where hearse and rehearse have the same root and the word dunce comes from a great philosopher, English has hundreds of every day words that originated or acquired their meaning in unusual ways. Dictionaries don't have the space to tell us all the mysteries, but now Dr.... more »
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CM C. (CocoCee) reviewed Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins on + 404 more book reviews
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Though Charles Funk wrote this in 1950, it's filled with still current (2007) words and their origins. Should be interesting to all couch potato/bathroom reading etymologists.
Phil F. (hubby) reviewed Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins on + 108 more book reviews
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This book gives the origins of many words and is very interesting.
Nancy S. (NanPeg) reviewed Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Origins on + 8 more book reviews
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Gives history of American phrases. Great for word-lovers and those who wonder just where certain common phrases originated.
Genres:
- Education & Reference >> General
- Education & Reference >> Words & Language >> Linguistics
- Education & Reference >> Words & Language >> General
- Education & Reference >> Words & Language >> Etymology
- Education & Reference >> Dictionaries & Thesauruses >> English (British)