Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning
by:
Sol Steinmetz (author)
Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing
Edition language: English
For a linguistics lover, this is a great book! It gives examples of how many common English words started out with a totally different meaning. I also enjoyed the quotations from novels that were included in the book. The only thing I didn't like very much was the book's organization; the words are ...