The World in So Many Words: A Country-by-Country Tour of Words That Have Shaped Our Language by Allan Metcalf

The World in So Many Words: A Country-by-Country Tour of Words That Have Shaped Our Language

Allan Metcalf

298 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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"Biblically speaking, the first paradise was the Garden of Eden. But linguistically speaking, it was a Persian amusement park. Or, more precisely, it was the walled park of a Persian ruler or noble, observed more than two thousand years ago by a y...

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