Thereby Hangs A Tale - Stories of Curious Word Origins

Informationen zum Autor Charles Earle Funk was editor in chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books on word and phrase origins, including Horsefeathers, Heavens to Betsy!, and Thereby Hangs a Tale. Klappentext The Greek root of school means leisure. A language where hearse and rehearse have the same root and the word dunce comes from a great philosopher, English has hundreds of every day words that originated or acquired their meaning in unusual ways. Dictionaries don't have the space to tell us all the mysteries, but now Dr. Funk, with humor and insight, tells us the strange and intriguing stories of hundreds of words and how they came to be a part of our language. Zusammenfassung The Greek root of school means leisure. A language where hearse and rehearse have the same root and the word dunce comes from a great philosopher! English has hundreds of every day words that originated or acquired their meaning in unusual ways. Dictionaries don't have the space to tell us all the mysteries! but now Dr. Funk! with humor and insight! tells us the strange and intriguing stories of hundreds of words and how they came to be a part of our language.

Product details

• Authors: Charles E Funk, Charles E. Funk, Charles Earle Funk, Funk Charles Earle
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780060513382
• ISBN: 978-0-06-051338-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; HISTORY: Social History, REFERENCE: Trivia, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Etymology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Fiction Writing, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, REFERENCE: Word Lists, EDUCATION: Reference