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Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do With Pigs: And Other Fascinating Facts About the English Language - Softcover
A lively and enlightening look at the peculiarities of the English language looks at the colorful histories behind five hundred common words and phrases in the English language, all organized according to season, focusing on such terms as tragedy, glamour, grammar, and passion fruit. Original.
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Six Words You Never Knew Had Something To Do With Pigs is that rare book that is both entertaining and illuminatingyou could gobble it all down at one sitting (The Vancouver Sun)
Six Words You Never Knew Had Something To Do With Pigs is an elegant little publication that will likely find a place of prominence o regularly used bookshelves in many Canadian homes and cottages. (The Chronicle Herald, Halifax)
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Six Words You Never Knew Had Something To Do With Pigs is an elegant little publication that will likely find a place of prominence o regularly used bookshelves in many Canadian homes and cottages. (The Chronicle Herald, Halifax)
The editor in chief of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary and one of the worldÂ's leading authorities on the English language, Katherine Barber is a recipient of the 1999 Canadian Booksellers AssociationÂ's Libris Award.
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- PublisherPenguin Group USA
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0143038125
- ISBN 13 9780143038122
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- Number of pages220
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