The thingummy
By: by Danny Danziger and Mark McCrum
Contributors: McCrum, Mark, 1958-
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780385614566
Subjects: Etymology; English language; Onomastics
Description: The world is full of thingummies - things we ought to know the names for, probably think we do know the names for, but when it comes to it we don't. This title offers an informative look at various things from a-line skirts to umbrellas. It provides us with the real names of those thingummies with the history, myth and anecdote behind them.