What's in a Word: Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 Everyday Words and Phrases

by Webb Garrison

Overview

Here is a fascinating and humorous encyclopedia of more than three hundredwords and phrases and how they have taken on new meanings over time. It is aninformative reference book for the whole family. What's in a Word? is asequel to Garrison's popular Why You Say It. Indexed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558538115
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	06/10/2000
Edition description:	Limited Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Webb Garrison, formerly associate dean of Emory University and president of McKendree College,wrote more than 55 books, including Civil War Curiosities and Civil War Triviaand Fact Book. Before his deathin 2000, Garrison lived in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.