Words, Words, Words by Tom Burton

Words, Words, Words

Tom Burton

114 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction essays
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This book was developed from a series of short talks on how words change their meanings through time and space. Why is it, for example, that monks of the Middle Ages were able to call the Virgin Mary 'buxom' and 'daft' without perving over her fig...

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