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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
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754

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English language, Terms and phrases, Etymology, Dictionaries

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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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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.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
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.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
1997, Facts on File
in English - Rev. and expanded ed.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
1987, Facts on File
in English
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Includes index.

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Other Titles
Encyclopedia of word and phrase origins

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Dewey Decimal Class
422/.03
Library of Congress
PE1689 .H47 1997

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xiii, 754 p. ;
Number of pages
754

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OL984277M
Internet Archive
factsonfileencyc00hend
ISBN 10
0816032661
LCCN
96022031
OCLC/WorldCat
34782678
Library Thing
8813
Goodreads
1452037

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