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Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? : and Other Fearless Investigations Into Our Illogical Language
by Feldman, David
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060916613
- ISBN 13
- 9780060916619
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About This Item
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1990. First HarperPerennial Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.209 with index. A reference book about the English language for anyone incurably curious about the idiosyncrasies of the language. clean tight copy.
Synopsis
The English language is filled with familiar words that, when one thinks about them, are downright peculiar: cooties, doozies, and heepie-jeebies; finks and funks; mugwumps and muumuus; deep six and cloud nine. There's only one pundit to solve these and other riddles of our spoken tongue: David Feildman, who in his bestselling Imponderables™ book and Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? has established himself as the unchallenged expert on answering and unanswerable.Word Imponderables™ have always been favorites with Feldman's legions of fans, and in Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? he gets to the source of all the mysteries surrounding our curious vocabulary. Why do we mid our Ps and Qs and not our Vs and Ws? Which Toms lent their names to Peeping Tom, Tom Collins, and tommy gun. How does a Weasel go "pop" -- and why for that matter? And who are the Joneses we're supposed to be keeping up with?Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? is a reference book you can't afford to be without. So don't beat around the bush , and don't wait until the eleventh hour to until the jig is up. This is compulsive reading for anyone incurable curious about the idiosyncrasies of the language.
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- 001913
- Title
- Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? : and Other Fearless Investigations Into Our Illogical Language
- Author
- Feldman, David
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First HarperPerennial Edition.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060916613
- ISBN 13
- 9780060916619
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- ESL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES
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- ESL;
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