The Chronology of Words and Phrases: A Thousand Years in the History of EnglishKyle Cathie, 1999 - 269 pages "Throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on the way we speak. Starting from 1066 and working through to the modern-day green movement, with a nod towards the invention of playing cards, the California Gold Rush and the first recorded blizzard along the way, The Chronology of Words and Phrases links hundreds of words and phrases with the historical upheavals and minor social changes which gave them life. A words book for historians and a history book for wordsmiths, it will have pride of place in any book lover's collection." --Book Jacket. |
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... European confectionery was first made in the city state around the middle of the fourteenth century . When sugar supplies from the New World started to come into Europe in the sixteenth century , sugar confection became an established ...
... European confectionery was first made in the city state around the middle of the fourteenth century . When sugar supplies from the New World started to come into Europe in the sixteenth century , sugar confection became an established ...
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... European languages . Middle English borrowed the word from French coton in the fourteenth century . Cotton did not at first apply to finished cloth , however , but to the downy plant substance in its unspun state . Throughout Europe in ...
... European languages . Middle English borrowed the word from French coton in the fourteenth century . Cotton did not at first apply to finished cloth , however , but to the downy plant substance in its unspun state . Throughout Europe in ...
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... European potters , the secret for making true porcelain was not discovered until the early eighteenth century . Johann Böttger and Ehrenfried von Tschirnhaus , working under the patronage of Augustus II , Elector of Saxony and King of ...
... European potters , the secret for making true porcelain was not discovered until the early eighteenth century . Johann Böttger and Ehrenfried von Tschirnhaus , working under the patronage of Augustus II , Elector of Saxony and King of ...
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The Chronology of Words and Phrases: A Thousand Years in the History of English Linda Flavell,Roger Flavell No preview available - 2001 |
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