Jess Zafarris

Broschiertes Buch

Words from Hell

Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology

Beschreibung

From bodily functions to the dirtiest insults onto war and weaponry to illicit substances, this book goes where no dictionary has dared go before. It is the only adults-only etymology dictionary.

Autor

Jess Zafarris is the author of Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids. She is also an award-winning innovator of digital content and marketing solutions and a prolific online and print journalist, having served as Audience Engagement Editor at Adweek and Executive Director of Marketing & Communications for Gotham Ghostwriters. Before that, she served as Content Strategist and Digital Content Director for Writer's Digest  and Script, and she still occasionally writes for WD. Her nine years of experience in digital and print content direction and marketing include such roles as editor-in-chief of HOW magazine and online content director of HOW and PRINT magazine, as well as writing for the The Hot Sheet, the  Denver Business Journal, ABC News, and the Memphis Commercial Appeal. She has a bachelor's degree in English Literature (with minors in Arabic and Anthropology) from DePaul University and a master's degree in Journalism & Mass Communications from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 126mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781399808217
• ISBN-10: 1399808214
• Artikelnr.: 69638516