Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing VocabularyOxford University Press, 2006 - 272 sider When did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and in Gallimaufry: A Hodge-Podge of Words Vanishing from Our Vocabulary Michael Quinion has gathered together some fascinating examples of words and meanings which have vanished from our language. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete, sometimes it survives in a figurative sense while the original meaning is lost, and sometimes it simply gives way to a more popular alternative. The story of these and many other words opens a window into the lives of past speakers of the English language. |
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... dancing ; in any case the dance only really became fashionable after her death in 1817. It was a type of square dance , requiring four couples , and danced in five sections called figures ( because of the step patterns in the diagrams ...
... dancing ; in any case the dance only really became fashionable after her death in 1817. It was a type of square dance , requiring four couples , and danced in five sections called figures ( because of the step patterns in the diagrams ...
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... dance - honest diversions , which unite exercise and amusement . We don't use the vaguely rude - sounding verb polk any more , though she clearly means dancing the polka , a Bohemian dance whose name is from either Czech půlka , a half ...
... dance - honest diversions , which unite exercise and amusement . We don't use the vaguely rude - sounding verb polk any more , though she clearly means dancing the polka , a Bohemian dance whose name is from either Czech půlka , a half ...
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... dance linked to the pavane was the saltarello ( based on Latin saltare , to dance ) , which involved a lot of sudden skips and jumps for the couple . Between the time of Pepys and Charles II and that of Jane Austen , many of these ...
... dance linked to the pavane was the saltarello ( based on Latin saltare , to dance ) , which involved a lot of sudden skips and jumps for the couple . Between the time of Pepys and Charles II and that of Jane Austen , many of these ...
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