The Unexpected Evolution of Language: Discover the Surprising Etymology of Everyday Words by Justin Cord Hayes

The Unexpected Evolution of Language: Discover the Surprising Etymology of Everyday Words

Justin Cord Hayes

240 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history reference informative slow-paced
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This book is awesome awful!Did you know that "awful" first originated as a compliment? How about the fact that it was perfectly fine for someone to defecate in their living room? Or that at one time a bully was actually a sweetheart?You may think ...

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