Max Cryer: Common Phrases and the Amazing Stories Behind Them
Скачать книгу (размер 1 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 319) Аннотация: In day-to-day speech we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is. Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term bad hair day, or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglas invented the name and use of canned laughter…