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Word Drops Jones Paul Anthony From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. In nineteenth-century…
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From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. In nineteenth-century slang a wolf trap was a corrupt casino. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for "stumbling block" and originally described a trap for a wild animal?
Roulette means "little wheel" in French. Casino means "little house" in Italian. A wheeler is someone who attends auctions to bid on items merely to increase their sale price.
Such links take readers on an unexpected journey through linguistic oddities. Inspired by the popular @HaggardHawks Twitter account, Word Drops also uses an intriguing series of annotations to add background and historical context on everything from Anglo-Saxon cures for insanity to Samuel
Word Drops Jones Paul Anthony
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