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Edwin Radford (1891–1973)

Author of Encyclopedia of Superstitions

20 Works 384 Members 2 Reviews

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Legal name
Radford, Edwin Isaac
Birthdate
1891
Date of death
1973
Gender
male
Education
University of Cambridge
Occupations
editor
critic
Organizations
Royal Society of Arts
Relationships
Radford, Mona Augusta (wife)
Nationality
UK
Birthplace
West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, UK
Places of residence
Worthing, West Sussex, England, UK
Place of death
London, England, UK
Associated Place (for map)
England, UK

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3 reviews
Superstition > Dictionaries
Folklore > Dictionaries
Un po’ come il libro di Ayto ma più piccolo, spesso con altre parole, ogni tanto mette qualche interessante storiella. Guardando la “d”, trovo dab, per esempio: to be a dab hand o dab hand viene dal latino adeptus. Nel senso di picchiettare viene dall’Old English e dall’olandese dubben, che ci ha dato anche to dub, come in “he was dubbed a knight”. Dead as a doornail viene dal chiodo sul quale si picchia il battiporta: qualsiasi cosa colpita in testa con tale forza e frequenza show more deve per forza essere morta… “Blurb: A brief and eulogistic note on the character and contents of a book printed on its paper dust-jacket. A strikingly successful example of this on a book by the American writer Gellette Burgess featured a Miss Belinda Blurb, and this name came to be associated with all such wrapper advertisements. The word entered Standard English in the 1920s”. Te lo eri chiesto, vero? Ora lo sai – e anche prima di aprire il libro, dato che questo si legge sulla quarta di copertina.
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