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What's in a Word : Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 Everyday Words and Phrases - Webb B. Garrison

What's in a Word

Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 Everyday Words and Phrases

By: Webb B. Garrison, Thomas Nelson Publishers

Paperback | 12 June 2000

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Here is a fascinating and humorous encyclopedia of more than three hundredwords and phrases and how they have taken on new meanings over time. It is aninformative reference book for the whole family. What's in a Word? is asequel to Garrison's popular Why You Say It. Indexed.

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