Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities
Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities PDF From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure phrases and language info in a single fascinating chain of phrase associations. Do you know, for instance, that scandal derives from the Latin for “stumbling block” and initially described a lure for a wild animal?…