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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press (14 Sep 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198610629
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198610625
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
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What is a gallimaufry anyway? And when did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and here Michael Quinion, author of the bestselling POSH and other language myths , has gathered together some fascinating examples of words and meanings which have vanished from our language. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete, sometimes it survives in a figurative sense while the original meaning is lost, and sometimes it simply gives way to a more popular alternative. The story of these and many other words opens a window into the lives of past speakers of the English language.
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