Bagels, bumf, & buses : a day in the life of the English language / Simon Horobin.

By:

Horobin, Simon [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newyork, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: viii, 241 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9780198832270 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

English language -- Etymology

DDC classification:

420 HOR

Summary: Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	420 HOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K3065

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Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories.

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