Day-to-day speech is peppered with certain phrases, pithy sayings and folkore and this little book endeavours to give us the origin, and meaning of some of those phrases, with little observations which have been handed down over time, and an idea of how these sayings have altered over time. Citing s...
Lots of fun. Pronunciation hints would make it a perfect book, but it's very good without (besides, I should really learn how to pronounce Latin words). In addition to learning some fun tidbits, I've also learned some new words.