Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 006019653X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1298 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Just Indispensable A Customer This book is simply one of the best dictionaries of its kind ever to have been published, and, I might add, Brewer's work has already become a classic. It contains a wealth of entries from divers areas, including mythology, history, classics, language, as well as common sayings, phrases and legends. Useful as a reference though it is, this dictionary is eminently suited to a casual browse, which one will invariably find interesting, entertaining and edifying, containing many obscure tidbits of trivia that catches one's eyes. This edition, unfortunately, omits a few entries that were present in previous edition. This "Classic Edition" is quite good, although abridged William Bultas The full version of this edition of Brewer's is available free online (public domain), and in PDF format comes in at well over 900 pages (I believe close to 1,000). This abridged print edition has 876 pages. I cannot determine who edited this version, and no date of publication for the original full material can be found (in the online or this print edition), but it was no earlier than 1951, and no later than 1971. I established this because I quickly found a 1951 date for an event in the past tense in the book, but Memorial Day is not listed as the last Monday in May, and that was established by federal law i. BREWERS DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE. Author-zone I do not expect to like one hundred percent of each book I purchase, nor do I read the entire book; however, a book like this is a good reference/search source. I give it five stars for what the book accomplished, not for what I did not find.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is one of the world's best-loved reference books. To complete this rich mix of information, Brewer and his subsequent editors have added an extraordinary and enticing miscellany of general knowledge-lists of patron saints, terms in heraldry, regimental nicknames, public house names, and famous last words.For the sixteenth edition of Brewer's the entire existing text has been revised and updated and over 1000 new articles added. Alongside these are articles on people and events in mythology and religion, and on folk customs, superstitions and beliefs. Major events and people in history are also treated, as
As the foreword points out, ?to be considered obscure by a Brewer!s editor is a real badge of obscurity,? and the dictionary is, indeed, astonishing in its coverage. It is not, of course, perfect. The 16th edition contains 1000 new entries, including ?paparazzi,? ?full monty,? ?couch potato,? and ?millennium bug.? It also adds more quotations and subentries (examples of usage) while eliminating a few entries from previous editions because of obscurity. From Library Journal The first edition of this dictionary was published in 1870; the 15th in 1995. Libraries that do not own a copy of an earlier edition should certainly consider acquiring this reference.?Katherine K. For example, the phrase ?to climb on the bandwagon? is under ?climb? rather than ?bandwagon.? In addition, the book continues to be Anglocentric, though the editors appear to be making an effort to include other cultures. Nevertheless, there is no other reference quite like Brewer!s; if you need to