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Title:

Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning

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Sol Steinmetz

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Product Description "My favorite popular word book of the year" -William Safire, NY Times 6/22/2008 A fun, new approach to examining etymology! Many common English words started out with an entirely d... (more)

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Title:

The Life of Language: The fascinating ways words are born, live & die

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Sol Steinmetz

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Product Description If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word ... (more)

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Sol Majestic, The

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Ferrett Steinmetz

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Title:

Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Dictionary)

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Sol Steinmetz

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Product Description How are the words 'door' German 'Tzr' and Sanskrit 'dvar' related? When did the word Blarney first appear in print? What's the linguistic history of the word 'history'? The Chambers Etymo... (more)

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Title:

Random House Webster's Dictionary (The Ballantine Reference Library)

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Sol Steinmetz

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Title:

Yiddish and English: The Story of Yiddish in America

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Sol Steinmetz

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Product Description This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years. Yiddish arriv... (more)

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Yiddish & English (Judaic Studies Series)

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Sol Steinmetz

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Product Description This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years. Yiddish arrived in A... (more)

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Title:	The Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms
Author:	Sol Steinmetz
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Title:	Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms
Author:	Sol Steinmetz
Description:	Product Description Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms is a unique and much needed guide to the way many Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic words and meanings are used by English speak... (more)
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Title:	Youthopia USA
Author:	Sol Steinmetz
Description:	Product Description Youthopia USA tells the story of a future government run by juveniles. The anti-hero of the novel is a Juvenocrat, Booper Simms, who finds himself at odds with the ruthless demands of his ... (more)
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