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Verbivore's Feast: A Banquet of Word and Phrase Origins
Book by Smith, Chrysti M.
376 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2004
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June 6, 2007
What a delightful book written by a wonderful lady. Chrysti's wit and humor has only grown and blossomed since those days in high school so many years (decades) ago. The book is the best of several years or her daily program. Read and listen. Find a station near you at http://www.wordsmithradio.org/.
March 2, 2008
LOVE this book. Explains the origins of words & phrases such as "academics" (all you UDers out there would love this one), "fornicate", "gobbledygook", "let the cat out of the bag", and "heroin". Always good fun to learn this kind of history.
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