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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... phrase fraught with meant ' charged with ' . It could be used to voice optimism or pessimism , thus fraught with ... phrase remorsus conscientiae , ' remorse of conscience ' , which became remors de conscience in Old French . Its first ...
... phrase fraught with meant ' charged with ' . It could be used to voice optimism or pessimism , thus fraught with ... phrase remorsus conscientiae , ' remorse of conscience ' , which became remors de conscience in Old French . Its first ...
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... phrase the worse for wear which is now idiomatic and means ' battered from much use ' . It still retains notions of ' run down ' and ' shabby ' , which have been reinforced since the middle of the sixteenth century by a similar phrase ...
... phrase the worse for wear which is now idiomatic and means ' battered from much use ' . It still retains notions of ' run down ' and ' shabby ' , which have been reinforced since the middle of the sixteenth century by a similar phrase ...
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... phrase has been used figuratively since the 1930s , with the sense of one person demolishing the arguments of another : The Chancellor hit the Leader of the Opposition for six . Latterly it has also been used more generally to mean ...
... phrase has been used figuratively since the 1930s , with the sense of one person demolishing the arguments of another : The Chancellor hit the Leader of the Opposition for six . Latterly it has also been used more generally to mean ...
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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