Thereby Hangs A Tale
Subtitle: Stories of Curious Word Origins
Publisher: Collins
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780060513382
First sentence: The so-called sport of bear-baiting was widely known among the Teutonic countries a thousand years ago, but it became nowhere more popular than in England, especially after the fourteenth century.