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Author:   Gerald Cohen ,  Stephen Goranson ,  Matthew Little
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.312kg
ISBN:  

9781138628953

ISBN 10:   1138628956
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   09 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Overview CHAPTER 2: Introduction: ‘Origin unknown’; previous works; chronology CHAPTER 3: Penal Servitude! continued CHAPTER 4: Spread of put the kibosh on from Cockney CHAPTER 5: Kibosh in several newspaper accounts CHAPTER 6: Additional attestations of kibosh CHAPTER 7: Three competing etymologies are unconvincing CHAPTER 8: General observations APPENDICES Appendix #1: Anatoly Liberman’s 2013 article ‘Three Recent Theories of Kibosh, continued’ (Aug. 14, 2013) Appendix #2: kibosh-from-kurbash etymology, evidently first Proposed by Matthew Little (Nov. 2009) Appendix #3: Several newspaper items about chimney sweeps Appendix #4: Political complexities in Britain of the early 1830s Appendix #5: Notes & Queries items on a Yiddish origin of kibosh/kybosh Appendix #6: Two pictures illustrating use of the kurbash REFERENCES INDEX

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Mr Cohen [...] worked with his co-authors to piece together how kibosh came into British usage in the 1830s. The resulting book 'Origins of Kibosh' in the Routledge Studies in Etymology series, settles on a convincing origin story. - Ben Zimmer, Wall Street Journal, 30-31 December 2017 Read 'Origin of Kibosh' and you will indeed by instructed and amused. - Anatoly Liberman, The Oxford Etymologist, 29 November 2017

Author Information

Gerald Cohen is Professor of German and Russian, with a research specialty in etymology, at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA. Stephen Goranson works in the library of Duke University, where he also earned a doctorate. Matthew Little is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University.

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