The English language is full of beauty and surprises.
If you're a lover of the weird and wonderful, from fascinating etymology to the ten most overused and useless English phrases, this book isn't averse to a peppering of persiflage!
Did you know:
- pilots and air traffic controllers at major air international airports have to speak English
- the hashtag symbol is an "octothorpe"
- "bumfiddle" means to spoil a piece of paper or document
- the word "noon" originally meant 3pm; the literal meaning of "bamboozle" is to make a baboon out of someone.
This book contains a boatload of things you didn't know about the English language and it's a guaranteed prolix-free zone.
| ISBN: | 9781788402019 |
| Publication date: | 3rd October 2019 |
| Author: | Michael Powell |
| Publisher: | Cassell an imprint of Octopus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Usage and grammar guides Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation Writing and editing guides Grammar, syntax and morphology |
The English language is full of beauty and surprises.
If you're a lover of the weird and wonderful, from fascinating etymology to the ten most overused and useless English phrases, this book isn't averse to a peppering of persiflage!
Did you know:
- pilots and air traffic controllers at major air international airports have to speak English
- the hashtag symbol is an "octothorpe"
- "bumfiddle" means to spoil a piece of paper or document
- the word "noon" originally meant 3pm; the literal meaning of "bamboozle" is to make a baboon out of someone.
This book contains a boatload of things you didn't know about the English language and it's a guaranteed prolix-free zone.
Word Nerd features in the following genres: Usage and grammar guides, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, Writing and editing guides, Grammar, syntax and morphology
Word Nerd is available in Hardback
Word Nerd was written by Michael Powell and published by Cassell an imprint of Octopus
Word Nerd has 96 pages