Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs

A delightfully addictive compendium of fascinating word facts that does for the dictionary what  Eats, Shoots, and Leaves  did for the manual of style   With the easy erudition and lively wit that have won her legions of fans, Canada's "Word Lady" reveals the entertaining histories behind 500 of the most common words and phrases in the English language. Who knew that "travel" is derived from an instrument of torture? That "tragedy" originally had something to do with goats? That "