Bagels, bumf, & buses : a day in the life of the English language / Simon Horobin.
2019
PE1574 .H676 2019
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Title
Bagels, bumf, & buses : a day in the life of the English language / Simon Horobin.
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ISBN
9780198832270
9780192568281 (e-book)
9780192568281 (e-book)
Published
Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Copyright
2019
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 241 pages).
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PE1574 .H676 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
422
Summary
Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories.
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