Foto de archivo: la portada puede ser diferente
Who Put the Butter in Butterfly: And Other Fearless Investigations Into Our Illogical Language
de Feldman, David
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very good.
- ISBN 10
- 0060916613
- ISBN 13
- 9780060916619
- Librería
-
Derwood, Maryland, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: William Morrow & Company. 1992. Trade paperback. Very good.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name clean, tight pages No bent corners .
Sinopsis
The English language is filled with familiar words that, when one thinks about them, are downright peculiar: cooties, doozies, and heepie-jeebies; finks and funks; mugwumps and muumuus; deep six and cloud nine. There's only one pundit to solve these and other riddles of our spoken tongue: David Feildman, who in his bestselling Imponderables™ book and Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? has established himself as the unchallenged expert on answering and unanswerable.Word Imponderables™ have always been favorites with Feldman's legions of fans, and in Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? he gets to the source of all the mysteries surrounding our curious vocabulary. Why do we mid our Ps and Qs and not our Vs and Ws? Which Toms lent their names to Peeping Tom, Tom Collins, and tommy gun. How does a Weasel go "pop" -- and why for that matter? And who are the Joneses we're supposed to be keeping up with?Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? is a reference book you can't afford to be without. So don't beat around the bush , and don't wait until the eleventh hour to until the jig is up. This is compulsive reading for anyone incurable curious about the idiosyncrasies of the language.
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- 2Vbooks
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- Alibris.0032426
- Título
- Who Put the Butter in Butterfly: And Other Fearless Investigations Into Our Illogical Language
- Autor
- Feldman, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0060916613
- ISBN 13
- 9780060916619
- Editorial
- William Morrow & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Palabras clave
- Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. Audience: General/trade.
Términos de venta
2Vbooks
Please contact me if you are not happy with your order. Please post positive feedback if you are.
Sobre el vendedor
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
