Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? - And Other Fearless Investigations Into Our Illogical Language

Informationen zum Autor David Feldman is the author of ten previous volumes of Imponderables ® . He has a master's degree in popular culture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and consults and lectures on the media. He lives in New York City. Klappentext Bestselling author and pop-culture pundit David Feldman demystifies our language's most curious cliches and quips. From cooties and mugwumps to Ps and Qs and Peeping Tom, this is a doozie of a diversion. Zusammenfassung Bestselling author and pop-culture pundit David Feldman demystifies our language's most curious cliches and quips. From cooties and mugwumps to Ps and Qs and Peeping Tom! this is a doozie of a diversion.

Product details

• Authors: David Feldman
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.1992
• EAN: 9780060916619
• ISBN: 978-0-06-091661-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: MILITARY, REFERENCE: Questions & Answers, HISTORY: 21ST CENTURY AMERICAN, REFERENCE: Curiosities & Wonders, HUMOR: Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture