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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... Sometimes , it is possible to be very precise . In September 1653 , a wall some half a mile long was built across Manhattan Island in New York . Its ditches and palisades were to provide protection from the native Americans , and from ...
... Sometimes , it is possible to be very precise . In September 1653 , a wall some half a mile long was built across Manhattan Island in New York . Its ditches and palisades were to provide protection from the native Americans , and from ...
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... Sometimes entire communities perished : the villages of Standelf and Tilgarsley in Oxfordshire , for instance . By the following summer the plague had reached London . One estimate holds that 200 bodies were buried there daily ...
... Sometimes entire communities perished : the villages of Standelf and Tilgarsley in Oxfordshire , for instance . By the following summer the plague had reached London . One estimate holds that 200 bodies were buried there daily ...
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... sometimes it may denote barley and sometimes wheat or rye . In the early seventeenth century English settlers in North America found the Indians there cultivating maize and , being unfamiliar with the plant , called it Indian corn . The ...
... sometimes it may denote barley and sometimes wheat or rye . In the early seventeenth century English settlers in North America found the Indians there cultivating maize and , being unfamiliar with the plant , called it Indian corn . The ...
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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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