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Cassell's Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins

Nigel Rees

出版	Cassell, 2002
主題	Reference / Word Lists
ISBN	03043622559780304362257
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tg-_wAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Have any idea where the word nerd came from? 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.