num_pages: 304
description: This fascinating new study reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language's building blocks and chronicles the etymologies of dozens of common words whose original meaning has been obscured through the passage of time. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Secret Lives of Words
titlecomplete: The Secret Lives of Words
genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Language, Writing
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Mariner Books