Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones

Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities

Paul Anthony Jones

216 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction funny informative slow-paced
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From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for "stumbling block" and originally d...

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