Cassell Dictionary of Word & Phrase Origins

Autor*innen

• Nigel Rees

Parameter

• 273 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

• Handbücher und Anleitungen
• Historisches Thema
• Linguistik
• Sachliteratur
• Wörterbücher

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Have any idea where the word "nerd" came from, or "twerp"? This dictionary starts where ordinary references beg off. *Discover that bad hair day was originated by California teenagers in the early 1990s. *Learn that bikini comes from the name of a Pacific island used in the 1940s for atomic bomb tests. *Learn why a flight data recorder is called a black box--even though it's orange. 224 pages 5 x 7 3/4.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Einband: Paperback