Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions

ISBN-13: 9781472907981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str.

Richard McCloskey

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Most of us never realize how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases--colorful, bizarre and surprising--and how they came ashore. For anyone with an interest in the sea & its traditions--landlubbers, boaters, historians, linguists.