Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Bagels Bumf And Buses A Day In The Life Of The English Language
Author(s): Horobin Simon (Professor Of English Language And Literature Professor Of English Language And Literature University Of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198832270
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/2020
Category: Historical & Comparative Linguistics