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It's a Wonderful Word: The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words by Albert Jack
$28.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados? In "It's a Wonderful Word", bests ...Show more
It's a Wonderful Word: The Real Origins of Our Favourite Words by Albert Jack
$39.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr. Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados? In "It's a Wonderful Word", best ...Show more
What Caesar Did for My Salad - Not to Mention the Earl's Sandwich, Pavlova's Meringue and Other Curious Stories Behind Our Favourite Food by Albert Jack
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually from Scotland and what did some retired crusaders ha ...Show more
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