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Gallimaufry: Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary

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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...

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Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-955102-6

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