Remarkable Words With Astonishing Origins

From 'Amuck' to 'Venom'; appendices of collective nouns, rhyming slang, Grand Tour words, surprising family names, redundancies and reduplications; illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan.

Publisher: Clarkson N Potter. Reprint
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: New York
Fine in very good dustwrapper.


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