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What They Didn't Say Elizabeth Knowles

What They Didn't Say By Elizabeth Knowles

What They Didn't Say by Elizabeth Knowles


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Summary

Brings together a range of wrongly remembered sayings, popular summaries of original thoughts, and apocryphal or unverifiable comments attributed to a particular person. By revealing what was (and was not) really said, this book presents the colour and inventiveness of language change.

What They Didn't Say Summary

What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations by Elizabeth Knowles

Follow the money Fresh fields and pastures new A good day to bury bad news If the glove doesn't fit you must acquit Brings together a fascinating range of wrongly remembered sayings, popular summaries of original thoughts, and apocryphal or unverifiable comments attributed to a particular person. By revealing what was (and was not) really said, this book celebrates the colour and inventiveness of language change.

About Elizabeth Knowles

Elizabeth Knowles is Publishing Manager for Oxford Quotations Dictionaries and is a historical lexicographer, having previously worked on the 4th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. She is editor of the current 6th edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

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GOR001739648
9780199203598
0199203598
What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations by Elizabeth Knowles
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
20061026
176
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