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9780317660036, titled "Grailquest" | Amity House, June 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | also contains Grailquest
Hardcover:
9781442233256 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 27, 2014, cover price $165.00
Product Description: In day-to-day speech, we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is.Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term âbad hair day,â or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglass invented the name and use of âcanned laughterâ for television, or that âcold turkeyâ as a term for quitting something immediately was popularized by the novel and movie (starring Frank Sinatra) The Man with the Golden Arm? Here youâll learn the origins of phrases like: Credibility gap Ginormous Metrosexual The Mile High Club My lips are sealed The operaâs not over until the fat lady sings Supermarket Supermodel Thereâs no accounting for taste Thick as thieves And hundreds more!For anyone who loves language, this book will âtake the cake...read more
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9781620875810 | Reprint edition (Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, June 4, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In day-to-day speech, we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from.
9780838910979 | Amer Library Assn, September 1, 2011, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This book is as good as gold for word buffs.
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9780199567461 | 3 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 12, 2012), cover price $18.95
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9780395378885 | Rev sub edition (Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1985), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Briefly discusses the nature and history of language and lists meanings and associated words for Indo-European root words
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9780547549446 | 3 original edition (Houghton Mifflin, September 13, 2011), cover price $21.95 | also contains The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
Hardcover:
9780395986103 | 2 edition (Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 2000), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Discusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words.
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9780547549446 | 3 original edition (Houghton Mifflin, September 13, 2011), cover price $21.95 | also contains The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
9780618082506 | 2 edition (Houghton Mifflin, September 14, 2000), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Discusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words.
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9781611450538 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, April 1, 2011), cover price $14.95
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9780199547937 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2010), cover price $16.95
Product Description: At the beginning of the 9th century, the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who peopled the countries abutting the Baltic - the Norsemen or Northmen, the Swedes, and the Danes - began a great outward movement which was caused both by political changes and their enterprising nature...read more
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9781846821738 | Four Courts Pr Ltd, August 7, 2010, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: At the beginning of the 9th century, the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who peopled the countries abutting the Baltic - the Norsemen or Northmen, the Swedes, and the Danes - began a great outward movement which was caused both by political changes and their enterprising nature.
Words are the building blocks of language, but their derivations are often stories in themselves. Have you ever wondered why we wear perfume, read magazines, vote for candidates and speak in jargon? With entries from assassin to villain, the authors explain the origins of 300 words.
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9781856268615 | Kyle Books, January 14, 2010, cover price $14.95
9781856265645 | Kyle Cathie Ltd, October 31, 2004, cover price $15.00
9781856263719 | Trafalgar Square, March 1, 2001, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Words are the building blocks of language, but their derivations are often stories in themselves.
9781856262149 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 1996, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Aimed at both word-puzzle enthusiasts and language students, this is a companion to "Dictionary of Idioms" and "Dictionary of Proverbs", and is by the same authors.
9780756757137 | Diane Pub Co, May 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Words are the building blocks of language, but their derivations are often stories in themselves.
Hardcover:
9780138070250, titled "Servo Motor and Motion Control: Using Digital Signal Processors/Book and Disk" | Prentice Hall, May 1, 1990, cover price $71.00 | also contains Servo Motor and Motion Control: Using Digital Signal Processors/Book and Disk
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9781847062741 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 10, 2009, cover price $21.95
Useful for school students, this work is a dictionary of word origins. Each headword entry gives a complete story about how a particular word came into the English language and evolved over time. Each headword entry also includes meanings and how each word is used in context. It covers themes like: acronyms, eponyms, invented words, and blends.
Hardcover:
9780199108084 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 11, 2002, cover price $14.35 | About this edition: Useful for school students, this work is a dictionary of word origins.
Hardcover:
9780550142306 | Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd, September 15, 1999, cover price $45.00
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9780061056475, titled "Dragoncharm" | Harpercollins, November 1, 1996, cover price $5.99 | also contains Dragoncharm | About this edition: The Old Ones had prophesied that someday dragon would fight dragon until there were none left in the world, and now this prophesy begins to come true as the legendary Charmed Dragons confront an army of Naturals, and Fortune, a half-caste, holds the key to survival.
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9780061056475 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1996, cover price $5.99 | also contains Chambers Dictionary of Etymology | About this edition: The Old Ones had prophesied that someday dragon would fight dragon until there were none left in the world, and now this prophesy begins to come true as the legendary Charmed Dragons confront an army of Naturals, and Fortune, a half-caste, holds the key to survival.
Hardcover:
9780138070250 | Prentice Hall, May 1, 1990, cover price $71.00 | also contains Where Words Come from: A Dictionary of Word Origins
Hardcover:
9780317660029 | Amity House, June 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | also contains Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
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9780317660036 | Amity House, June 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | also contains A Thesaurus of English Word Roots
Hardcover:
9780802215574 | Allied Books Ltd, June 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Shipley, Joseph
9780837119663 | 2 edition (Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1969), cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Book by Shipley, Joseph
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9780822601210 | Littlefield Adams, June 1, 1979, cover price $20.95
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