You Will Know Everything About The Word

Word (Le Robert Hors Collection Adulte)
From “first words” to “last words”, including “bad words”, “love words” or “witty words”, (re)discover as many anecdotes as historical gems that put words in the spotlight. Through an anthology of cult expressions, this book pays tribute to a word that is too often neglected: the word “word”. Did you know that word is not originally a word but an onomatopoeia? Will you be able to solve the definitions of the best crossword puzzlers? Do you know what the words simple, quatorze, meurtre, triomphe, larve, monstre, goinfre, pauvre and belge have in common?

Product details
Publisher : Le Robert (8 Mar. 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ French
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages