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    Beautiful Words: a Dictionary
    Beautiful Words: a Dictionary
    Beautiful Words: a Dictionary
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    Beautiful Words: a Dictionary

    By David Tuffley

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    As English has evolved over the past 1,500 years, words that were once in common usage have slipped out of usage. Some are delightful, others not so much. This book blows the dust off a thousand delightful words, bringing them to a whole new audience. So if you enjoy words for their own sake, or if you are at all curious about how people talked and wrote when the world was a quite different place, then this book is for you.

    Ever since it emerged as a distinct language from the West Germanic dialect spoken by early arrivals to what is now called England around the 5th Century C.E, English has busily absorbed many thousands of words from Ancient Greek and Roman Latin, the Northern Germanic languages of Scandinavia, the French spoken in Normandy, and more recently from countries that were once part of the British Empire (for example India). Most recently, American English has contributed many words to colourfully describe the modern world. The Oxford English Dictionary in 2011 lists over 250,000 words, and that does not include many more technical and slang words.

    Use this book like a hungry person might approach a delicious buffet lunch. It deserves to be consumed slowly, savouring the flavours and giving them time to be properly digested.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAltiora Publications
    Release dateMay 23, 2012
    ISBN9781476358147
    Beautiful Words: a Dictionary
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    David Tuffley

    David Tuffley (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & Socio-Technical Studies at Griffith University in Australia.David writes on a broad range of interests; from Comparative Religion, Anthropology, Psychology, Ancient and Modern History, Linguistics, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Architectural History, Environments and Ecosystems.

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    Beautiful Words - David Tuffley

    Beautiful Words

    A Dictionary

    David Tuffley

    Published by Altiora Publications at Smashwords

    www.altiorapublications.com

    © Copyright 2012 David Tuffley

    Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone -- Paul Tillich.

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    About the Author

    David Tuffley PhD has had a consuming interest in language since books became his best earthly companions as a child in growing up in pre-computer world.

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    Contents

    Introduction

    A | B| C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S |T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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    Introduction

    As English has evolved over the past 1,500 years, words that were once in common usage have slipped out of usage. Some are delightful, others not so much. This book blows the dust off a thousand delightful words, bringing them to a whole new audience. So if you enjoy words for their own sake, or if you are at all curious about how people talked and wrote when the world was a quite different place, then this book is for you.

    Ever since it emerged as a distinct language from the West Germanic dialect spoken by early arrivals to

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