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What is the link between map and apron, acrobat and oxygen, zeal and jealousy, beef and cow, flour and pollen, danger and dominion, secret and crime? Did you know that crimson comes originally from the name of tiny scale insects, the kermes, from whose dried bodies a red dyestuff is made? That Yankee started life as a nickname for Dutchmen? That omelette evolved from the Old French amelette, 'a thin sheet of metal,' and is a not-too-distant cousin of the word laminate? That jeans find their ante
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joseph Twadell Shipley
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
- Published
- 1969
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780837125046
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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