English for everyone
Victoria Boobyer
A complete self-study English-language course that combines easy-to-use visual learning with crystal-clear grammar explanations, practice exercises, and free audio"--Page 4 of cover.
Read Time: ~15.8 hr
The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
by Robert Hendrickson (2008)
About this book
Author Robert Hendrickson traces the sometimes bizarre, always fascinating origins and development of more than 9,000 words and phrases from A to Zzz, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names, place-names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign-language expressions, and phrases from literature. This greatly expanded and revised version of the critically acclaimed 1987 original contains more than 2,000 new entries. Comprehensive, authoritative, and eminently readable, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins will delight the logophile and serve as an invaluable reference tool for all students of language and literature.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreThe Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins Lead Character
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