Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions by Beavis, Bill

Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472907981)

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Format: Paperback
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Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions by Beavis, Bill

Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions

$16.00
Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions by Beavis, Bill

Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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Most of us never realize how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases--colorful, bizarre and surprising--and how they came ashore. For anyone with an interest in the sea & its traditions--landlubbers, boaters, historians, linguists.

Author: Bill Beavis, Richard McCloskey
ISBN-10: 1472907981
ISBN-13: 9781472907981
Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical Press
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2014
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.00w x 0.27d
By Bill Beavis
By Bill Beavis
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Bill Beavis was a seaman turned journalist who had long been interested in nautical etymology. He died a number of years ago. Richard McCloskey is a distinguished American marine historian.

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