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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... instance is the five - day sit - in that took place at the Homestead steel mill in 1892. Frick simply sent in 300 of his thugs , provoking a bloody scrimmage in which 14 people were killed . ( Vanessa Letts , CADOGAN GUIDE TO NEW YORK ...
... instance is the five - day sit - in that took place at the Homestead steel mill in 1892. Frick simply sent in 300 of his thugs , provoking a bloody scrimmage in which 14 people were killed . ( Vanessa Letts , CADOGAN GUIDE TO NEW YORK ...
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... instance , lottery revenue helped the Virginia Company provide for the settlement of Jamestown ( see 1607 , page 142 ) . During the reign of Charles II , lotteries were planned by the Master of the Mint . After the razzmatazz of ...
... instance , lottery revenue helped the Virginia Company provide for the settlement of Jamestown ( see 1607 , page 142 ) . During the reign of Charles II , lotteries were planned by the Master of the Mint . After the razzmatazz of ...
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... instance , or on awakening from deep sleep . PINEAPPLE Pineapple is a compound word whose etymological sense is ' edible fruit of the pine tree ' . In the fourteenth century , pineapple denoted ' a pine cone ' . The word is made up of ...
... instance , or on awakening from deep sleep . PINEAPPLE Pineapple is a compound word whose etymological sense is ' edible fruit of the pine tree ' . In the fourteenth century , pineapple denoted ' a pine cone ' . The word is made up 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 |
Common terms and phrases
adjective American amongst Anglo-Norman appeared applied became began Bible birds borrowed into English borrowed into Middle borrowed into Old called Canterbury cathedral Church cloth cockfighting coined Crusaders dates denote derived from Latin describe developed DICTIONARY earliest eighteenth century England English borrowed English word etymology Europe European eventually fifteenth figurative FORM OF CURY fourteenth century France Greek hawk hence Henry horse idiom instance invention Italian John king knight known land languages Late Latin later Latin verb London meaning meant medieval Latin Middle Ages Middle Dutch Middle English modern English monks nineteenth century Norman noun Old English Old French originally phrase plague popular real tennis recorded referred Roman second half sense sixteenth century soon Spanish spice sugar taken into Old term thirteenth century Thomas à Becket took translation turn twentieth century unattested prehistoric Germanic unattested Vulgar Latin verb Vulgar Latin William