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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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English language, Terms and phrases, Etymology, DictionariesShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
2008, Facts On File
in English
- 4th ed.
0816069662 9780816069668
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The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
2008, Facts On File
in English
- 4th ed.
0816069662 9780816069668
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zzzz
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The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
2008, Facts On File
in English
- 4th ed.
0816069662 9780816069668
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zzzz
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The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
1997, Facts on File
in English
- Rev. and expanded ed.
0816032661 9780816032662
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The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
1987, Facts on File
in English
0816010129 9780816010127
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