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Street Smarts: From Footpath to Freeway-A Miscellany

By Deborah Warren
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Travel through the endless lore of roads, turnpikes, highways, and whatever byways humans have put on Earth in these short, funny, and interconnected essays.

Deborah Warren is a sure and entertaining guide to nearly every road—related topic out there—from odonymy (the study of street names) to map—making techniques to the history of the world’s most celebrated lanes.

Did you know...

  • The word “travel” derives from the Latin tripaliare, meaning “to trouble, to torture.”
  • The length of the paras...

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PhilosophyLinguistics & SemioticsHistorical (Diachronic) Linguistics