The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities
- Authors
- Jones, Paul Anthony
- Publisher
- Elliott & Thompson Ltd
- Tags
- history , reference
- ISBN
- 9781783963584
- Date
- 2017-10-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.74 MB
- Lang
- en
A whole year’s worth of linguistic curiosities, just waiting to be discovered. Open the Cabinet to leap back in time, learn about linguistic trivia, follow a curious thread or wonder at the web of connections in the English language.
Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of strange and forgotten words: illuminating some aspect of the day, or simply telling a cracking good yarn, each reveals a story.