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Author: James Tucker Publisher: Onyx ISBN: 9780451408914 Category : Detective and mystery stories Languages : en Pages : 420
Book Description
Dr. Jack Merlin, chief of surgery, gets suspicious when four people die after successful routine operations. The victims have nothing in common--except the same insurance carrier. The more Merlin unravels the truth, the more ruthless he discovers his adversaries to be. But Merlin has one more trick up his sleeve.
Author: James Tucker Publisher: Onyx ISBN: 9780451408914 Category : Detective and mystery stories Languages : en Pages : 420
Book Description
Dr. Jack Merlin, chief of surgery, gets suspicious when four people die after successful routine operations. The victims have nothing in common--except the same insurance carrier. The more Merlin unravels the truth, the more ruthless he discovers his adversaries to be. But Merlin has one more trick up his sleeve.
Author: Mark Forsyth Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101611766 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 305
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This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example, do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these etymological questions and more in this fascinating book for fans of of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what, precisely, the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. This witty book will awake the linguist in you and illuminate the hidden meanings behind common words and phrases, tracing their evolution through all of their surprising paths throughout history.
Author: Eric Partridge Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131744552X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 2680
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First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
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