The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 M07 1 - 672 pages There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown. Anecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science. |
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... Shakespeare punned in his title Much Ado About Nothing (pronounced Noting): to carry along the plot, many things must be noted, as by eavesdropping, or discerned through the blundering of Dogberry. Like other good playwrights, Shakespeare ...
... Shakespeare punned in his title Much Ado About Nothing (pronounced Noting): to carry along the plot, many things must be noted, as by eavesdropping, or discerned through the blundering of Dogberry. Like other good playwrights, Shakespeare ...
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... . Amsterdam is on the Amstel River. English (Shakespeare's) Harry le Roi was Prince Hal. From the “gramarye” of medieval witchcraft and alchemy, grammar and glamour (originally a spell, still the spell of beauty) are variants of a single.
... . Amsterdam is on the Amstel River. English (Shakespeare's) Harry le Roi was Prince Hal. From the “gramarye” of medieval witchcraft and alchemy, grammar and glamour (originally a spell, still the spell of beauty) are variants of a single.
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... Shakespeare, as might be expected, was the greatest wordfacturologist of them all. Well known is his one-time honorificabilitudinitatibus, with its long alternation of consonants and vowels. Less well known is the fact that of the ...
... Shakespeare, as might be expected, was the greatest wordfacturologist of them all. Well known is his one-time honorificabilitudinitatibus, with its long alternation of consonants and vowels. Less well known is the fact that of the ...
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... Shakespeare is truly Old English, for the earliest recorded fellow of that ilk, William Sakspere of Clopton, who died in 1248, was hanged for robbery. The family prestige had been given luster by the only Englishman to become pope ...
... Shakespeare is truly Old English, for the earliest recorded fellow of that ilk, William Sakspere of Clopton, who died in 1248, was hanged for robbery. The family prestige had been given luster by the only Englishman to become pope ...
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... Shakespeare's Autolycus, in The Winter's Tale, puts it in what is glossed as “a notable euphemism”: “I shall but look upon the hedge, and follow thee”—although I do not put it past the Elizabethan actor to have sounded the look like ...
... Shakespeare's Autolycus, in The Winter's Tale, puts it in what is glossed as “a notable euphemism”: “I shall but look upon the hedge, and follow thee”—although I do not put it past the Elizabethan actor to have sounded the look like ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley No preview available - 2001 |
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