Word Nerd

Author : Michael Powell

Hardback

Published : Thursday 3 October 2019

ISBN : 9781788402019

Price : €10.52

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Description

It's time to get your nerd on.

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.

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