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Have any idea where the word "nerd" came from, or "twerp"? This dictionary starts where ordinary references beg off. *Discover that bad hair day was originated by California teenagers in the early 1990s. *Learn that bikini comes from the name of a Pacific island used in the 1940s for atomic bomb tests. *Learn why a flight data recorder is called a black box—even though it's orange. 224 pages 5 X 7 3/4.
- Author
- Rees, Nigel, 1944-
- Publisher
- Cassell; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780304348039
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities
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