| John Ayto - Cooking - 2012 - 417 pages
From absinthe to zabaglione, theDiner's Dictionary is a mouth-watering collection of food and drink terms, explaining their meaning and origins. Covering basic ingredients and ... | |
| John Ayto - History - 2006 - 257 pages
Gives a selection of the key words added to the English language in the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first. This work features an introductory essay that ... | |
| John Ayto - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2009 - 983 pages
The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin ... | |
| John Ayto - Foreign Language Study - 2010 - 419 pages
Offers entries for over six thousand idioms, including seven hundred new to this edition, and provides background information, additional cross-references, and national variants. | |
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