Ebooks de Ralph Keyes en PDF et EPUB

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Télécharger le livre : The Hidden History of Coined Words
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The Hidden History of Coined Words
Ralph Keyes
Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-02-19

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Télécharger le livre : Unmentionables
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Unmentionables
Ralph Keyes
We say a lot about ourselves by what we don't say. Words and phrases like 'collateral damage', 'wardrobe malfunction', 'vertically challenged', and old favourites like 'unmentionables' (trousers, apparently) or 'lady of the night' - all are ways of not using particular...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-09-16

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