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Verbivore's Feast: A Banquet of Word [Hardcover]

Chrysti (Author), Whitney Smith (Author), Chrysti M. Smith (Author)

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Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Farcountry Press (May 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560372656
ISBN-13: 978-1560372653
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
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This is a wonderful book for anyone who loves words, phrases and everything which has to do with our wonderful English language. I wish our Mother could still be alive to read this--it would have been her favorite also.

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Most of us are acquainted with the word aardvark, not from safari sightings nor zoo-viewings, but from its conspicuous double-a place on the first pages of dictionaries and encyclopedias. Read the first page

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underworld lingo, word watchers, slang vocabulary, aoth century

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American English, New York, Old English, United States, North America, Second World War, Civil War, Middle Ages, Old Testament, New Testament, South America, Dictionary of American Slang, Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, Mary Magdalene, New England, East Coast, Old French, Tuxedo Park, Black Hills, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, John Dennis, Long Island, Lord Cardigan, Lord Raglan, Louis Braille

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The Dictionary of American Slang by Robert L. Chapman on page 32, page 103, and page 271
Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by Morris on page 262, page 319, and Back Matter
The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins: Definitions and Origins of More Than 12,500 Words and Expressions (Facts on File Writer's Library) by Robert Hendrickson on page 8, page 82, and Back Matter
Dictionary of Word Origins: Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words by John Ayto on page 288, page 312, and Back Matter
Word Origins by John Ayto on page 288, page 312, and Back Matter

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