[Ebook free] The Historical Dictionary of Golfing Terms: From 1500 to the Present
☆ Peter Davies ☆
| #4069479 in Books | Bison Books | 2005-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x7.00 x.40l,.76 | File Name: 0803266545 | 188 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The best source on golfing terms|By dcnicholls|This is an excellent book for people curious about the meaning and origins of golfing terms. It covers historical words - for example the old names of clubs in the hickory era - and current words and their origins. I get emailed regularly about such things via my website, and this is the source I turn to to answer the tricky quest|From Library Journal|Frog Hair , mashie , and niblick are a few of the more colorful terms defined in this entertaining and thorough piece of research by noted lexicographer and golf enthusiast Davies. The format is that of a conventional dictionary, with entri
No game has a richer array of terms than golf. As new golfing terms have accumulated, old ones have changed or faded away. This concise yet informative dictionary provides definitions and the etymologies for the extraordinary vocabulary of golf, built up over its five-hundred-year history. To discover the origins of golf and its special language, Peter Davies combed little-known archives on two continents. As his unique contribution to the game, Davies’s enth... [PDF.vd69] The Historical Dictionary of Golfing Terms: From 1500 to the Present Rating: 4.59 (680 Votes)
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