Cassell's Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by Nigel Rees

Cassell's Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins

Nigel Rees

274 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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Have any idea where the word nerd came from? This dictionary starts where ordinary references beg off. Discover that bad hair day was originated by California teenagers in the early 1990s. Learn that bikini comes from the name of a Pacific island ...

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