Etymology
pdf |en | | Author: Gordian Schreiber

( Category: Etymology February 23,2023 )
pdf | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ye Lu & Yu-Xin Deng & Yue-Jian Lin & Ying-Feng Han & Lin-Hong Weng & Zhen-Hua Li & Guo-Xin Jin

( Category: Etymology January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-02 | Author:Paul J.J. Payack

US VS UK bangs vs. fringe childish thinking vs. nappy-headed counterclockwise vs. anticlockwise (actually widdershins) crosswalk vs. zebra crossing diaper vs. nappy drunk driving vs. drink driving eggplant vs. aubergine ...
( Category: Etymology January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Howard Richler

In the following chapters we will look at some words that began their lives in particular fields before transcending their restricted parameters. First, we will look at words whose senses ...
( Category: Etymology January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Keith Kahn-Harris

Sorani is not the most widely spoken version of Kurdish. That honour goes to Kurmanji (also known as Northern Kurdish) which is the predominant language of 15–20 million Turkish Kurds ...
( Category: Etymology January 9,2023 )
pdf |en | | Author: Caroline K. Mackenzie

( Category: Etymology January 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Philip Gooden

Winston and the Cross He had to Bear [British/French: Winnie/Deux Mètres (Two Metres)] As with some other successful and charismatic political leaders, Winston Churchill’s first name alone was enough to ...
( Category: Etymology January 7,2023 )
pdf | | | Author:Power

( Category: Etymology December 1,2022 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:Michael Quinion

Gry Nobody seems to be absolutely sure how it started, but quite suddenly in the mid-1990s everybody concerned with language in North America, from librarians to newspaper columnists to dictionary ...
( Category: Etymology October 2,2022 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:David Crystal [Crystal, David]

N nang or gnang (verb) Cumberland, Dorset, Kent, Somerset, Sussex, Westmorland, Yorkshire Of a pain: to keep up a dull, continuous aching. From Yorkshire: ‘This old tooith is gnangin’ at ...
( Category: Etymology September 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:Metcalf, Allan; [Metcalf, Allan;]

See, here, the Popish Pouder-plots fair thriving, Fauks and his Father-Satan sit contriving The fatal-Instruments, to puffe and blow Hell out of Earth, a State to over-throw, At Once, for ...
( Category: Etymology September 19,2022 )
pdf | | 2017-08-04 | Author:Listening, Speaking & Critical Thinking 1

( Category: Etymology September 4,2022 )
pdf | | 2021-07-15 | Author:Juan-Pablo Vita [Vita, Juan-Pablo]

( Category: Etymology July 10,2022 )