John Simpson
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you?
The answers to all of these questions — and a great many more — can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief...
The answers to all of these questions — and a great many more — can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Examples of exile from all over the world, and from all periods of history. Describes their exile, their emotions, their struggles and their despair. Sources range from police records, newspaper articles, interviews, letters and memoirs, as well as verse and fiction, and settings as remote as Iran and Russia, China and Palestine.