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The Diner's Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink

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 ...
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Brewer's Britain & Ireland

Paul Cavill - History - 2005 - 1314 pages
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Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age

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 ...
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Word Origins

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 ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms

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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20th Century Words

John Ayto - Civilization, Modern - 2002 - 796 pages
责任者译名:艾托。
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