Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends

by David Wilton (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $16.19

  Do you believe that Ring Around the Rosie refers to the Black Death? Or that Eskimos have 50 (or 500) words for snow ? Or that Posh is an acronym for Port Out, Starboard Home ? If so, you badly need this book. In Word Myths, David Wilton debunks some of the most spectacularly wrong word histories in common usage, giving us the real stories behind many linguistic urban legends.