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Salty Dog Talk - The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions (Paperback, Reissue): Bill Beavis, Richard McCloskey Salty Dog Talk - The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions (Paperback, Reissue)
Bill Beavis, Richard McCloskey
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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.

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