Книга: Dent Susie «Weird Words»
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Производитель: "Scholastic" Susie Dent is here to take children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing, amusing and sometimes quite revolting backgrounds of English words. Did you know, for instance, that`fizzle`originally meant to break wind silently? Over time, it came to describe a weak, spluttering, hissing sound. And you might think that`ain`t`isn`t a word you should use, but it is thought the word was once used by kings and queens. As Susie Dent knows, even the most ordinary-sounding word can have the most extraordinary story behind it. Издательство: "Scholastic" (2013)
ISBN: 978-1-4071-3702-5 |
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