Gallimaufry
A hodgepodge of our vanishing vocabulary
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 14 September 2006
- ISBN 9780198610625
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 196x129x26 mm
- Weight 411 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 line drawings 0
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Short description:
This entertaining book looks at words which have vanished from current English and offers fascinating insights into the lives and beliefs of the past from an unexpected angle. Each chapter looks at how the words we no longer use reflect how life has changed in that area, from food we no longer eat to clothes we no longer wear.
MoreLong description:
What is a gallimaufry anyway? And 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 here Michael Quinion, author of the bestselling POSH and other language myths , 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.
Table of Contents:
Food and Drink
Of messes in pots
Sugar and spice and all things nice
Skilligalee and boiled babies
Fruits of grain and grape
Below-stairs life
Health and Medicine
Potions and curatives
Caudles, cordials, and possets
The parlance of physicians
Diseases and conditions
Entertainment and Leisure
Games with cards
Games with things
Outdoor games
Invitation to a dance
The food of love
Of thimbleriggers and joculators
Natural magic
Transport and Fashion
Your carriage awaits
Ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things
Cloth of ages
Wigs on the green
Get ahead, get a hat
Names, Employment and Communications
What's in a name
Obscure occupations
The long and the short of it
Can you hear me, mother?
Going, going ... gone?
Epilogue
Words that never made it
Index of featured words
Gallimaufry: A hodgepodge of our vanishing vocabulary
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