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A whole years worth of linguistic curiosities, just waiting to be discovered. Within these pages you might leap back in time, learn about linguistic trivia, follow a curious thread or wonder at the web of connections in the English language. 1 January qua
Paul Anthony Jones introduces a long-lost winter vocabulary to warm the coldest of hearts Country Life As the nights draw in and the cold descends, the winter world emerges and with it an incredible array of words that superbly capture the season. From
'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library Why dont eleven and twelve end in teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so wh