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 80
... probably Bond fans will be able to turn a blind eye to the bites and agenbites of new- Bond's inwit . ( THE LISTENER , March 1968 ) 1346 EDWARD III USES CANNON AT CRÉCY The Chinese invented gunpowder in the ninth century but packed it ...
... probably Bond fans will be able to turn a blind eye to the bites and agenbites of new- Bond's inwit . ( THE LISTENER , March 1968 ) 1346 EDWARD III USES CANNON AT CRÉCY The Chinese invented gunpowder in the ninth century but packed it ...
Page 111
... probably first used by sixteenth - century English scoundrels as a cant term . It became familiar in the nineteenth century , largely through its occurrence in the works of Dickens . • From the fourteenth century dock denoted ' the ...
... probably first used by sixteenth - century English scoundrels as a cant term . It became familiar in the nineteenth century , largely through its occurrence in the works of Dickens . • From the fourteenth century dock denoted ' the ...
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... probably also aware that the Greeks themselves had run into linguistic difficulties . They had found Hebrew a bit of a challenge and had the idiom It's Hebrew to me to denote ' unintelligible speech ' . Thus there is probably more to ...
... probably also aware that the Greeks themselves had run into linguistic difficulties . They had found Hebrew a bit of a challenge and had the idiom It's Hebrew to me to denote ' unintelligible speech ' . Thus there is probably more to ...
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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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