Bagels, bumf, & buses : a day in the life of the English language / Simon Horobin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Newyork, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: viii, 241 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780198832270 (hbk.)
- 420 HOR
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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