Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons: The Origins of English in Ten Words by Paul Anthony Jones

Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons: The Origins of English in Ten Words

Paul Anthony Jones

288 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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What do the following ten words all have in common - haggard, mews, codger, arouse, musket, poltroon, gorge, allure, pounce and turn-tail? All fairly familiar and straightforward words, after a little digging into their histories it turns out that...

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