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Title: Why You Say It : The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases by Webb Garrison ISBN: 1-55853-128-9 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Entertaining, but not always as the author intended
Comment: The author seems like a nice enough fellow, someone you would enjoy as a dinner speaker. This book is evidently culled from his notecards. Some of his examples are informed, but certainly from secondary or tertiary sources. Others are jaw-dropping speculations based on understandable but wrong-headed idiomatic misreadings. HYMAN KAPLAN enthusiasts will be transfixed, but junior-high researchers and TOEFL-types should steer clear.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why say why?
Comment: This book is full of explanations and origins to over 600 words and phrases used in modern English. Unlike many books that examine the origins of words, this book is easy to read and is highly entertaining. Anyone who enjoys trivia will love this and even for those who don't, it's an enjoyable read nonetheless.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Why you say it" is a great trivia resource
Comment: If you want to know the origins of 'Once in a blue moon' or 'Here mud in your eye' or countless other phases and words, this is the book for you. The book is a very entertaining resource full of the mundane and arcane roots of common phrases. This is truly the stuff in which trivia games are made.
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Title: What's In A Word Fascinating Stories Of More Than 350 Everyday Words And Phrases by Webb Garrison ISBN: 1558538119 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Common Phrases: And Where They Come From by Myron Korach ISBN: 1585746827 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors by Robert Claiborne ISBN: 039332186X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Ever Wonder Why? by Douglas B. Smith ISBN: 0449147460 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 24 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: 2,201 Fascinating Facts: 2 Vols. in One by David Louis ISBN: 0517395746 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 12 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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