Henry Hitchings

Wow! This is a very densely written book about how we seems to have collected numerous foreign words into the English language and made them our own. For instance shampoo is a Hindi word - the origin from the verb champna - to knead or press to relieve fatigue and stimulate circulation! Isn't that why we enjoy having our heads massaged and washed in a Hairdressing Salon!

Also Propaganda wasn't a political word as we know and understand it now, but a specialist term for the promotion of the Christian Faith!

Well this book really speaks to, especially if you do read lots of books, or belong to a book club.  I found the book amusing and yet so true of many people, who talk about books when all they have read is a write up in a magazine or heard the book spoken about on radio!