Bagels bumf & buses : a day in the life of the English language
Simon Horobin (Author)
Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories
Print Book, English, 2019
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019
Informational works
viii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780198832270, 0198832273
1085634232
Preface
Part I: Starting the day
Part II: Work
Part III: Eating & drinking
Part IV: Sport & leisure
Part V: Evening