Word Histories And MysteriesDid you know that cats are related etymologically to caterpillars? Or that Thomas Edison played a key role in popularizing the use of the greeting Hello? Or that muscles were originally mice, since a flexed biceps looks like a little rodent scurrying under the skin? Word Histories and Mysteries provides a panoramic view of the unique richness of English, uncovering the origins of five hundred everyday words whose surprising and often amusing stories

Following Germany’s invasion of the USSR in June 1941

spurning the resentment of the lead aerialist

’ Paul McKenna

This Detective Club classic is introduced by crime writing historian and expert Tony Medawar

Jaromil is in fact a poet

trustworthy information on herbal remedies

But in The Soul of Sex

justifica y trata de explicar

In Consciousness Beyond Life

with whom she lived after her mother passed away

alongside his brother Luke and school friend Craig

You might see penguins swimming underwater