Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set "American English: 1781-1921." For a complete list of volume titles in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" (ISBN: 0-415-27964-X).
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Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set "American English: 1781-1921," For a complete list of volume titles in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" (ISBN: 0-415-27964-X).
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Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set "American English: 1781-1921," For a complete list of volume titles in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" (ISBN: 0-415-27964-X).
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Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set "American English: 1781-1921." For a complete list of volume titles in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" (ISBN: 0-415-27964-X).
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Mining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the letters and words in language as Bayley moves beyond mere pictures to understand the vital messages that have been ignored or lost across the centuries. ...

From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's history from its 1754 coinage into the 20th century. ...

Early Celtic-speakers left their traces in place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from Andalusia to the Black Sea. This original study reveals their full extent for the first time, exploiting a dataset of over 20,000 names recorded by Greek and Latin authors such as Polybius, Caesar and Tacitus and by early geographers such as Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Ravenna Cosmographer.Patrick Sims-Williams's results ...

Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set "American English: 1781-1921." For a complete list of volume titles in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" (ISBN: 0-415-27964-X).
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Available individually, or as part of the eight-volume set "American English: 1781-1921." For a complete list of volume titles in this set, see list for "American English: 1781-1921" (ISBN: 0-415-27964-X).
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While maintaining scholarly accuracy, Linda and Roger Flavell convey their great love of the curious in language in a way that will be irresistible to anyone who delights in words. ...