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Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning
de Sol Steinmetz
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0375426124
- ISBN 13
- 9780375426124
- Librería
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
288 pages. Good condition. Pages are clean with no writing or markings. Binding is strong. Intact dust jacket, not price clipped. Some warping from moisture and a few spots of discoloration; some price sticker residue to back cover over UPC code.
Sinopsis
"My favorite popular word book of the year"-William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008A fun, new approach to examining etymology!Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example:The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,' very different from today's meaning of the word: "utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion."Before the year 1200, the word silly meant "blessed," and was derived from Old English saelig, meaning "happy." This word went through several incarnations before adopting today's meaning: "stupid or foolish."In Semantic Antics, lexicographer Sol Steinmetz takes readers on an in-depth, fascinating journey to learn how hundreds of words have evolved from their first meaning to the meanings used today.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- Morton Brothers Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000260
- Título
- Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning
- Autor
- Sol Steinmetz
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good-
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0375426124
- ISBN 13
- 9780375426124
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Páginas
- 288
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Language, Linguistics, and Etymology;
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