num_pages: 376
description: A whole year’s worth of linguistic curiosities, just waiting to be discovered. Open the Cabinet to leap back in time, learn about linguistic trivia, follow a curious thread or wonder at the web of connections in the English language.Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of strange and forgotten words: illuminating some aspect of the day, or simply telling a cracking good yarn, each reveals a story.
language: English
title: The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words
publisher: Elliott & Thompson Ltd