500 Years of New Words

The Fascinating Story of How, Why, and When Hundreds of Your Favourite Words First Entered the English Language

By Bill Sherk ISBN: 9781550025255 format: Paperback pages: 336 publisher: Dundurn pub. date: 2004-09-01

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Take an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the 21st century. Entries are arranged in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down. Beginning with “America” in 1507 and spanning the centuries to “Marsiphobiphiliac” in 2004, this book is “unputdownable” (the main entry for 1947).

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