Why You Say It
Subtitle: The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases
Publisher: MJF Books
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781567313055
Subjects: Word Lists; Reference; Language; Vocabulary
First sentence: "Ambrose E. Burnside, a one-time manufacturer of rifles, became a colonel in the 1st Rhode Island Volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War."
Notes: "Here is a veritable encyclopedia of words and phrases- and how they came into our language" - Minneapolis Tribune