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An edition of The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins (1987)

The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins

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Author Robert Hendrickson traces the sometimes bizarre, always fascinating origins and development of more than 9,000 words and phrases from A to Zzz, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names, place-names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign-language expressions, and phrases from literature. This greatly expanded and revised version of the critically acclaimed 1987 original contains more than 2,000 new entries.

Comprehensive, authoritative, and eminently readable, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins will delight the logophile and serve as an invaluable reference tool for all students of language and literature.

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Facts On File
Language
English
Pages
948

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Subjects
English language, Terms and phrases, Etymology, Dictionaries

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2008, Facts On File
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2008, Facts On File
in English - 4th ed.
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Cover of: The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
2008, Facts On File
in English - 4th ed.
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The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
1997, Facts on File
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The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
1987, Facts on File
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Edition Notes

"Definitions and origins of more than 15, 000 world and expressions"--Cover.

Includes index.

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New York, NY
Series
Facts on File library of language and literature
Genre
Dictionaries, Terms and phrases
Other Titles
Encyclopedia of word and phrase origins

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
422/.03
Library of Congress
PE1689 .H47 2008

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Pagination
xi, 948 p. ;
Number of pages
948

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23960617M
ISBN 13
9780816069668, 9780816069675
LCCN
2007048223

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