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.
language: English
title: The Secret Lives of Words
titlecomplete: The Secret Lives of Words
genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Writing, Language
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt