Word for Word : Stories Behind Everyday Words We Use
Word for Word : Stories Behind Everyday Words We Use
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Author(s): Ahmed, Khaled
ISBN No.: 9780195478273
Pages: 370
Year: 202202
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 36.04
Status: Out Of Print

1. Where does 'Itvar' (Sunday) Come From? 2. Mystery of our Islamic months 3. Kabbala 4. Let's Begin with a Euphemism 5. President Putin's Funny Name 6. Ahmad Where does 'Itvar' (Sunday) Come From? 7. Does Politics Mean 'Riding' The People? 8.


A 'Tolerant' Pakistan? 9. Work as Punishment 10. How do we perceive beauty? 11. William Safire on 'Chaste' 12. Right Hand, Left Hand 13. Dr Tariq Rehman's 'ephebophilia' 14. The Discovery of Ram Allah 15. Arabic Sultan and Persian Shah 16.


'Shame' of Many Nations 17. Their 'Cock' and Our 'Kukkar' 18. Jinnah and His Guava 19. How Did You Get Your 'Lambkin'? 20. The Art of 'Gr'inning 'Gr'uesomely 21. The 'Banka' Youth of Lucknow 22. 'Murder' Behind The Oxford Dictionary 23. Before Eve, there was Lilith! 24.


'Truth' is 'hard' like 'wood' 25. Peace be upon us! 26. The various ways of being 'poor' 27. Some animals that Aryans shared 28. The common fly and the Aryans 29. The 'boat' of our secrets 30. Arabic Sultan and Persian Shah 31. The idea of heaven and hell 32.


The meaning of Yom Kippur 33. The various ways of getting married 34. Their 'luck' and our 'lekh' 35. Is 'mosque' derived from 'mosquito'? 36. Is Halaku Khan a good name? 37. Checkmate: 'the king is dead!' 38. 'Yeti': abominable snowman 39. What is 'Barmecide's banquet'? 40.


In pursuit of the elusive dog 41. Saddam the striker of the blow! 42. Want to be 'embedded'? 43. The meaning of 'Baghdad' 44. Our spitting image 45. Who will define 'terrorism'? 46. The deception of Indian missile 'Astra' 47. Is it 'shikast' or 'shakist'? 48.


The 'other' meanings behind 'Al Qaeda' 49. What's your 'angle'? 50. Are we ordained to conquer India?.


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