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Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins

Nigel Rees

出版	Cassell, 1996
主題	Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Etymology
ISBN	03043480319780304348039
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DO8sQAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Do you have any idea where the word "nerd" came from, or "twerp"? This dictionary starts where ordinary references beg off. Discover that bad hair day was originated by California teenagers in the early 1990s. Learn that bikini comes from the name of a Pacific island used in the 1940s for atomic bomb tests. Learn why a flight data recorder is called a black box -- even though it's orange.