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Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap ? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados ? In It's a Wonderful Word , bestselling author Albert Jack collects over 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding and most delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins. While brushing up on your gibberish or gobbledygook , discover why bastards should resent travelling salesmen, why sheets should remain on tenterhooks and why you should never set down a tumbler before finishing your drink. From blotto to bamboozle and from claptrap to quango , Albert Jack's addictive anecdotes bring the world's most colourful language to life and are guaranteed to surprise and entertain.
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It's a Wonderful Word, Albert Jack
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
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- Titel
- It's a Wonderful Word
- Untertitel
- The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Albert Jack
- Verlag
- Arrow
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0099562324
- ISBN13
- 9780099562320
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Handel, Wirtschaft & Management, Humor, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Ökonomie, Bildung, Soziologie, Technologie, Sprachen, Feminismus, Linguistik, Elternschaft, Gesellschaft, Anthropologie, Schreiben, Kultur, Weltgeschichte, Soziale Geschichte, Zivilisation, Innovation, Jack the Ripper
- Bewertung
- 3,25 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap ? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados ? In It's a Wonderful Word , bestselling author Albert Jack collects over 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding and most delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins. While brushing up on your gibberish or gobbledygook , discover why bastards should resent travelling salesmen, why sheets should remain on tenterhooks and why you should never set down a tumbler before finishing your drink. From blotto to bamboozle and from claptrap to quango , Albert Jack's addictive anecdotes bring the world's most colourful language to life and are guaranteed to surprise and entertain.