Word Nerd EPUB
by Michael Powell
EPUB
Description
The English language is full of beauty and surprises.
If you're a lover of the weird and wonderful, from fascinating etymology to the ten most overused and useless English phrases, this book isn't averse to a peppering of persiflage!
Did you know:
- pilots and air traffic controllers at major air international airports have to speak English
- the hashtag symbol is an "octothorpe"
- "bumfiddle" means to spoil a piece of paper or document
- the word "noon" originally meant 3pm; the literal meaning of "bamboozle" is to make a baboon out of someone.
This book contains a boatload of things you didn't know about the English language and it's a guaranteed prolix-free zone.
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- Publisher:Octopus
- Publication Date:03/10/2019
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- ISBN:9781788402057
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Octopus
- Publication Date:03/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788402057