Robert Smith Literary agency » Random House Books https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 It’s A Wonderful Word: The real origins of our favourite words, from anorak to zombie https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/594/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/594/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:36:21 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=594 What have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados?  In It’s A Wonderful Word, Albert Jack collects over 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding and most downright delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins.  

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