It's a Wonderful Word
Albert Jack
Cornerstone, 2012
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Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? This title collects over 500 of the strangest, and funniest-sounding words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins.
- ISBN-13
- 9780099562320
- ISBN-10
- 0099562324
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Year
- 2012
- Publication date
- 2012-07-05
- Pages
- 288
- Dimensions
- 198x130x19
- Weight
- 212