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Linda Flavell (4 knihy)

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  • Dictionary of English Down the Ages EN
    Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell Dictionary of English Down the Ages EN

    Throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on the way we speak. Columbus's discovery of America introduced to Europe new foodstuffs such as chilli and chocolate - and the words that described them. The Normans gave us the feudal system and curfews, while the flourishing of Dutch art in the seventeenth century introduced easels, etchings and landscapes. Before the 1970s green was a colour with…

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  • Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins EN
    Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins EN

    The English language contains a great store of idioms that can be used in creative and forceful ways. This book examines over 400 phrases, tracing each one's source and history through a supply of examples.

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  • Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins EN
    Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell Dictionary of Proverbs and Their Origins EN

    In Dictionary of Proverbs Linda and Roger Flavell trace the origins and histories of over 400 proverbs, detailing the changes of meaning and usage that have occurred throughout each proverb's life and offering literary examples dating back over 2000 years. Entries have been selected because they have a tale to tell and because they are pithily, even wittily phrased, offering, as Cervantes put it, 'short sentences…

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  • Dictionary of Word Origins EN
    Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell Dictionary of Word Origins EN

    Words are the building blocks of language, but their derivations are often stories in themselves. Have you ever wondered why we wear perfume, read magazines, vote for candidates, speak in jargon? Sometimes the origin of a word can be pinpointed with great accuracy - sputnik entered the English language (and many other languages around the world) on the day the Russian spacecraft was launched in 1957. Others are…

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