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Bloomsbury Dictionary Of Origins
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9788185288727
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W. R. Goyal Pub.
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Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
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Binding
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Paperback
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Year
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2008
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The average English speaker knows about 50,000 words - almost twenty-five times more words than there are stars visible in the night sky. This completely new Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins uncovers the often surprising connections between words. In over 8,000 entries the dictionary reveals the origins of and links between, for example, secret and crime, flour and pollen, imbecile and bacteria, plankton and complain. Written in a clear and informative style, with detailed cross-references the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins shows how English today has developed from its Indo-European origins and how the different main influences on the language have intermingled. The book also deals with the many new words and coinages that enter the lagnauge every year.
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Author Biography
John Ayto is a writer and lexicographer. Having been involved in developing the Longman Dictionary of the English Language, he now writes for the influential 'Words' Column in the Observer. He compiled the Longman Register of New Words.
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