UK News 16-06-2005 who: Oxford University Press what: Calls on public to help research word origins where: OXFORD when: Last week snippet: The publisher`s Wordhunt Project is seeking to establish the first verifiable usage of 50 words, including "pear-shaped", "boffin", "ska" and "mullet", says The Times. In other book news, The Telegraph reports on a book which lifts the lid on "the rarefied world" of Manhattan`s most upmarket flats which are closely guarded by the prejudices of Anglo-Saxon residential committees; The Independent looks ahead to Edward Klein`s The Truth about Hillary which has the tantalising subtitle "What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She`ll Go to Become President"; and in The Observer, Louise France discusses the rise of European authors like Carlos Ruiz Zafón in the crime novel market. [... more]

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