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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... responsible for the English word chair . The Latin borrowing cathedra was taken into Old French as chaiere , ' seat , throne ' , and then borrowed into Middle English in the thirteenth century . MASON Building for permanence in stone ...
... responsible for the English word chair . The Latin borrowing cathedra was taken into Old French as chaiere , ' seat , throne ' , and then borrowed into Middle English in the thirteenth century . MASON Building for permanence in stone ...
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A Thousand Years in the History of English Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell. responsible for the Old English verb woccan which meant ' to be awake ' and therefore ' to keep vigil ' . A derivative noun wœcce , denoted ' a state of wakefulness ...
A Thousand Years in the History of English Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell. responsible for the Old English verb woccan which meant ' to be awake ' and therefore ' to keep vigil ' . A derivative noun wœcce , denoted ' a state of wakefulness ...
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... responsible for scrape which came into English via either Old Norse or Middle Dutch in the early fourteenth century . It initially meant to erase what is written ' by scraping the surface of the parchment or paper with a knife or sharp ...
... responsible for scrape which came into English via either Old Norse or Middle Dutch in the early fourteenth century . It initially meant to erase what is written ' by scraping the surface of the parchment or paper with a knife or sharp ...
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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