- Gebundene Ausgabe: 448 Seiten
- Verlag: Barnes & Noble Inc (29. April 1993)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0880297514
- ISBN-13: 978-0880297516
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 1,3 x 1,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.432.809 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Fun and Funny Read!
8. September 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
This is quite an interesting book! There will probably never be another book like this! Fun because of the adventurous stories behind the words. Funny because the cross-referencing is... well, unusual. For example, you'll look up 'centigrade' and it will tell you to look under 'congress'! Other examples include: 'glass' => 'electricity'; 'pectoral' => 'parrot'; 'scratch' => 'knick-knack'; 'town' => 'villain'; and my favorite 'ventriloquism' => 'necromancy'! But that's just the beginning! There are even more... And then we have the Appendices. Appendix I is "Doublets" which are "words that have arrived in our language by different routes from the same source." This list is very useful especially for English students. Next we have Appendix II: Words From Names. These are common, every-day words that originate from proper nouns. For example: Did you know that the word 'coach' (as in a carriage pulled by a team of horses) comes from the Hungarian town Kocs where they were first used? Or did you know that 'dollar' comes from Joachimsthal, Germany where silver was mined? Or did you know that the yellow-colored shrub known as 'forsythia' was named for British royal gardener William Forsyth (1737-1804) who brought them home from a trip to China? And many other fascinating origins! This brings us to the last part of the book Appendix III: Given Names, Their Sources and Meanings. Any lover of words will love this section. Appendix III gives us the origins of nearly 1000 given names. For example: Did you know that the name Ichabod means "God hath departed" in Hebrew? Or that Jennifer is Gaelic for "white wave"? Or that Xerxes is Persian for "lion king"? This and many more from a book I highly recommend to all English students and lovers of words!
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Incomplete, yet invaluable
30. September 2005
I love this book.
...Sometimes, for fun, I kiss it.
When my wife is away, this book and I have been known to cuddle. Even now, as I'm typing this, I can't help but glance at this precious little book, and silently take its jacket off with my eyes. Oh, little "Dictionary of Word Origins," how I adore you! How I want to crack your binding and caress your smooth cover! How I want to feel the breath of your every turning page, and run my fingers between your every chapter.
Anyway. Um....
This really is a good book, and it's just amazing to discover how we arrived at the words we use today.
Look up "tawdry," and you'll discover it's named after St. Audrey who died of a tumor of the throat which she considered a punishment for her early love of necklaces. "St. Audrey's lace" was a necklace, such as was sold on her fair day, October 17th. The term was extended to include other objects bought at this and other fairs--and from the general quality of such articles, the word, now "tawdry," took its modern-day meaning.
How cool is that?
And that's just one of thousands of entries. My wife hates this book because she thinks my quoting makes me an even bigger nerd than I already am. But I know she's just jealous.
...Sometimes, for fun, I kiss it.
When my wife is away, this book and I have been known to cuddle. Even now, as I'm typing this, I can't help but glance at this precious little book, and silently take its jacket off with my eyes. Oh, little "Dictionary of Word Origins," how I adore you! How I want to crack your binding and caress your smooth cover! How I want to feel the breath of your every turning page, and run my fingers between your every chapter.
Anyway. Um....
This really is a good book, and it's just amazing to discover how we arrived at the words we use today.
Look up "tawdry," and you'll discover it's named after St. Audrey who died of a tumor of the throat which she considered a punishment for her early love of necklaces. "St. Audrey's lace" was a necklace, such as was sold on her fair day, October 17th. The term was extended to include other objects bought at this and other fairs--and from the general quality of such articles, the word, now "tawdry," took its modern-day meaning.
How cool is that?
And that's just one of thousands of entries. My wife hates this book because she thinks my quoting makes me an even bigger nerd than I already am. But I know she's just jealous.
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