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The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins (Facts on File Writer's Library) by Robert Hendrickson, 1933- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Author Robert Hendrickson traces the sometimes bizarre, always fascinating origins and development of more than 9,000 words and phrases from A to Zzz, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names, place-names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign-language expressions, and phrases from literature. This greatly expanded and revised version of the critically acclaimed 1987 original contains more than 2,000 new entries. Comprehensive, authoritative, and eminently readable, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins will delight the logophile and serve as an invaluable reference tool for all students of language and literature.
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert Hendrickson, 1933-
- Publisher
- Checkmark Books; Infobase Holdings, Inc.
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816040889
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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