BAGELS BUMF AND BUSES A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9780198832270
Published: November 2019

Number of pages: 256
Width: 141 mm
Height: 222 mm
Depth: 26 mm

Publisher: Oxford University Press