Susie Dent's Weird Words
Susie Dent
A funny & entertaining way to discover more about the history and meaning of language. SUSIE DENT'S WEIRD WORDS takes children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing & sometimes quite revolting origins of English words. As Susie Dent knows, even the most ordinary-sounding word can have the most extraordinary story behind it.
Susie Dent is the resident word expert in Dictionary Corner on C4's Countdown & 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, & has been on every programme about words: 15 x 15, Word of Mouth, & More or Less. Susie also writes regularly for the Radio Times, The Week Junior & The I, & her Word of the Day has attracted over 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. She is the author of six editions of The Language Report, an annual guide to the new words & phrases that find their way into the English language.
年:
2013
出版社:
Scholastic UK
言語:
english
ページ:
176
ISBN 10:
1407138693
ISBN 13:
9781407138695
ファイル:
EPUB, 9.97 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013