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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... English as munuc . Also from Greek monos , ' alone ' , came the verb monazein , ' to live alone ' . Late Greek ... Middle English in the thirteenth century by way of Anglo - Norman covent , its principal application was to ' a religious ...
... English as munuc . Also from Greek monos , ' alone ' , came the verb monazein , ' to live alone ' . Late Greek ... Middle English in the thirteenth century by way of Anglo - Norman covent , its principal application was to ' a religious ...
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... English spīthra , Middle English spither and modern English spider , literally a ' spinner ' . The spider's web derives ultimately from the unattested prehistoric Germanic base web- , and means ' a woven thing ' . In Old English web ...
... English spīthra , Middle English spither and modern English spider , literally a ' spinner ' . The spider's web derives ultimately from the unattested prehistoric Germanic base web- , and means ' a woven thing ' . In Old English web ...
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... Middle English borrowed the verb as furren in the fourteenth century and then derived the noun furre to denote ' linings and trimmings made of dressed animal pelts ' . By the fifteenth century fur began to be applied to the soft fine ...
... Middle English borrowed the verb as furren in the fourteenth century and then derived the noun furre to denote ' linings and trimmings made of dressed animal pelts ' . By the fifteenth century fur began to be applied to the soft fine ...
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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 |
Common terms and phrases
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