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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Page 98
... Old French as menuisier , whose thirteenth - century variant mincier was borrowed by English cooks in the fourteenth century . Mince , that staple of modern British carnivorous households , appeared in the nineteenth century as a ...
... Old French as menuisier , whose thirteenth - century variant mincier was borrowed by English cooks in the fourteenth century . Mince , that staple of modern British carnivorous households , appeared in the nineteenth century as a ...
Page 99
... Old French word which has helped to form the English word gravy . In Old French cookery books the word grané denoted a spiced sauce or dressing made from broth , almond milk and wine or ale , which was used to flavour fish and white ...
... Old French word which has helped to form the English word gravy . In Old French cookery books the word grané denoted a spiced sauce or dressing made from broth , almond milk and wine or ale , which was used to flavour fish and white ...
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... Old French baril in the early fourteenth century . The Spanish and Old French words are probably derived from unattested Late Latin barra , ' bar , rod ' , a reference to the staves from which the casks were constructed . Barra , a word ...
... Old French baril in the early fourteenth century . The Spanish and Old French words are probably derived from unattested Late Latin barra , ' bar , rod ' , a reference to the staves from which the casks were constructed . Barra , a word ...
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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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