| Description |
304 pages : portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Ampere (Ampere) -- Begonia (Begon) -- Bloomer (Bloomer) -- Bobby (Sir Robert Peel) -- Bowdlerize (Bowdler) -- Boycott (Boycott) -- Braille (Braille) -- Brougham (Brougham) -- Burke (Burke) -- Camellia (Kamel) -- Cardigan (Cardigan) -- Chateaubriand (Chateaubriand) -- Chauvinism (Chauvin) -- Chesterfield (Chesterfield) -- Clerihew (Edmund Clerihew Bentley) -- Daguerreotype (Daguerre) -- Dahlia (Dahl) -- Davenport (Davenport) -- Derby (Derby) -- Derrick (Derick) -- Derringer (Deringer) -- Diesel engine (Diesel) -- Doily (Doily) -- Dunce (duns Scotus) -- Fahrenheit (Fahrenheit) -- Forsythia (Forsythe) -- Fuchsia (Fuchs) -- Galvanize (Galvani) -- Gardenia (Garden) -- Gentian (Gentius) -- Gerrymander (Gerry) -- Grangerize (Granger) -- Greengage (Gage) -- Guillotine (Guillotin) -- Hansom (Hansom) -- Havelock (Havelock) -- Leotard (Leotard) -- Lobelia (De l'Obel) --Loganberry (Logan) -- Lynch (Lynch) -- Macadam (McAdam) -- Mackintosh (Macintosh) -- Magnolia (Magnol) -- Martinet (Martinet) -- Masochism (Von Sacher-Masoch) -- Maudlin (Magdalen) -- Mausoleum (Mausolus) -- Maverick (Maverick) -- Mercerize (Mercer) -- Mesmerize (Mesmer) -- Napoleon (Napoleon) -- Nicotine (Nicot) -- Ohm (Ohm) -- Pasteurize (Pasteur) -- Philippic (Philip) -- Pickle (Beukel) -- Pinchbeck (Pinchbeck) -- Plimsoll (Plimsoll) -- Poinsettia (Poinsett) -- Pompadour (Pompadour) -- Praline (De Plessis-Praslin) -- Pullman (Pullman) -- Quisling (Quisling) -- Raglan (Raglan) -- Sadism (De Sade) -- Sandwich (Sandwich) -- Saxophone (Sax) -- Sequoia (Sequoyah) -- Shrapnel (Shrapnel) -- Sideburns (Burnside) -- Silhouette (Silhouette) -- Simony (Simon Magus) -- Spoonerism (Spooner) -- Tawdry (Saint Audrey) -- Teddy bear (Theodore Rosevelt) -- Timothy (Timothy Hanson) -- Victoria (Queen Victoria) -- Volt (Volta) -- Watt (Watt) -- Wisteria (Wistar) -- Zeppelin (Von Zeppelin) -- Zinnia (Zinn). |
| Summary |
"Being an inquiry into the lives of those persons who have lent their names to the English language"--Jacket subtitle. |
| Subject |
English language -- Etymology.
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Biography.
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| Added Author |
Sorel, Edward, 1929- illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sorel, Nancy Caldwell. Word people. New York, American Heritage Press [1970] (OCoLC)647442299 |
| ISBN |
0070596484 |
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9780070596481 |
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