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출간일 | 2012년 10월 02일 |
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쪽수, 무게, 크기 | 279쪽 | 230g | 127*196*23mm |
ISBN13 | 9780425260791 |
ISBN10 | 0425260798 |
출간일 | 2012년 10월 02일 |
---|---|
쪽수, 무게, 크기 | 279쪽 | 230g | 127*196*23mm |
ISBN13 | 9780425260791 |
ISBN10 | 0425260798 |
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사연 없는 단어는 없다. 베스트셀러 작가이자 언론인, 교정인인 마크 포사이스가 단어의 기원을 추적한다. 이 책은 영어 어원의 꼬리에 꼬리를 물며 역사, 과학, 문학, 언어학 등 다양한 분야를 넘나든다. 한마디로, 아무도 물어보지 않았지만 일단 알려주고 보는 ‘TMI 어원 사전’이다. “이 단어의 어원이 이런 거였다니!” 인정하자. 어원의 세계는 인류 역사만큼이나 방대하고 흥미롭다. 카프카에스크, 마조히즘, 레피티즘의 공통점은 무얼까? 히틀러는 왜 ‘나치’라고 불리기를 싫어했을까? 커피 전문점 ‘스타벅스’의 어원이 소설 『모비 딕』의 인물 스타벅에서 유래했다고 하는데, 그럼 스타벅은 어디서 유래했을까? 유전학, 천문학, 독성학, 정신분석학과 같은 과학부터 전쟁사, 문화와 문학, 종교까지, 방대한 지식의 양에 한번 놀라고 예측할 수 없는 인문적 깊이에 다시 한번 놀란다. 우리가 몰랐거나, 어설프게 알았던 어원에 대한 112가지 정교하고 유쾌한 이야기에 빠져보자. 언어계의 ‘투 머치 토커’ 마크 포사이스가 이 특별한 지식 여행에 당신을 끌어들인다. 영어 실력이 느는 건 덤이다. 책을 덮을 때쯤 저자를 따라 당신도 어원 덕후가 될지도 모르겠다. This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example, do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these etymological questions and more in this fascinating book for fans of of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what, precisely, the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. This witty book will awake the linguist in you and illuminate the hidden meanings behind common words and phrases, tracing their evolution through all of their surprising paths throughout history. |
Preface xv A Turn-up for the Books 1 A Game of Chicken 3 Hydrogentlemanly 5 The Old and New Testicle 7 Parenthetical Codpieces 9 Suffering for my Underwear 12 Pans 13 Miltonic Meanders 15 Bloody Typical Semantic Shifts 18 The Proof of the Pudding 21 Susage Poison in your Face 23 Bows and Arrows and Cats 25 Black and White 28 Hat Cheque Point Charlie 31 Sex and Bread 33 Concealed Farts 37 Wool 39 Turkey 43 Insulting Foods 46 Folk Etymology 47 Butterflies of the World 50 Psychoanalysis and the Release of the Butterfly 52 The Villains of the Language 57 Two Executioners and a Doctor 58 Thomas Crapper 61 Mythical Acronyms 66 John the Baptist and the Sound of Music 69 Organic, Organised, Organs 71 Clipping 73 Buffalo 73 Antanaclasis 76 China 79 Coincidences and Patterns 80 Frankly, My Dear Frankfurter 83 Beastly Foreigners 84 Pejoratives 86 Ciao, Slave Driver 89 Robots 91 Terminators and Prejudice 93 Terminators and Equators 95 Equality in Ecuador 96 Bogeys 98 Bugbears and Bedbugs 100 Von Munchausen's Computer 103 SPAM (not spam) 105 Heroin 107 Morphing De Quincey and Shelley 108 Star-Spangled Drinking Songs 111 Torpedoes and Turtles 114 From Mount Vernon to Portobello Road with a Hangover 117 A Punch of Drinks 118 The Scampering Champion of the Champagne Campaign 121 Insulting Names 124 Peter Pan 127 Herbaceous Communication 130 Papa was a Saxum Volutum 133 Flying Peters 135 Venezuela and Venus and Venice 137 What News on the Rialto? 138 Magazines 140 Dick Snary 142 Autopeotomy 146 Water Closets for Russia 151 Fat Gunhilda 153 Queen Gunhilda and the Gadgets 155 Shell 156 In a Nutshell 158 The Iliad 159 The Human Body 162 The Five Fingers 163 Hoax Bodies 166 Bunking and Debunking 169 The Anglo-Saxon Mystery 171 The Sedge-Strewn Stream and Globalisation 176 Coffee 179 Cappuccino Monks 181 Called to the Bar 182 Ignorami 184 Fossil-less 188 The Frequentative Suffix 191 Pending 193 Worms and their Turnings 194 Mathematics 196 Stellafied and Oily Beavers 199 Beards 201 Islands 203 Sandwich Islands 208 The French Revolution in English Words 212 Romance Languages 213 Peripatetic Peoples 215 From Bohemia to California (via Primrose Hill) 217 California 220 The Hash Guys 223 Drugs 227 Pleasing Pslams 228 Biblical Errors 231 Salt 234 Halcyon Days 236 Dog Days 238 Cynical Dogs 240 Greek Education and Fastchild 241 Cybermen 243 Turning Trix 245 Amateur-Lovers 246 Dirty Money 248 Death Pledges 250 Wagering War 252 Strapped for Cash 253 Fast Bucks and Dead Ones 254 The Buck Steps here 257 Back to Howth Castle and Environs 259 Quizzes 261 The Cream of the Sources 277 |