Informal english: puncture ladies, egg harbors, mississippi marbles, and other curious words and phrases of north america
Auteur :
Kacirk, Jeffrey
Éditeur :
Simon & Schuster
ISBN :
9780743254939
Date de publication :
12 avr. 2005
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
273 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A wide-reaching treasury of some 2500 English-language colloquialisms from the past and present is culled from dictionaries, etymological treatises, historical writings, and other sources, in a volume that features such entries as "bone-orchard" and "chawswizzled."