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Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins
Author: John Ayto
The average English speaker knows 50,000 words in contemporary use - 25 more words than there are stars in the night sky visible to the naked eye. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality a much smaller number of words from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neolo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780747509714
ISBN-10: 0747509719
Publication Date: 9/30/1991
Pages: 592
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Book Type: Paperback
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