This book, the lifetime enterprise of an avid and enthusiastic researcher, endeavors to provide a delightful and enlightening glimpse into the mysteries and romance surrounding the origin of such words and phrases. Verbal, vocal or written. Words determine our lives and enhance our skills of loquaciousness. And, of course, underline the gift of gab. That’s precisely why words are an adventure, words are fun. We cannot live without them,. But what do we really know about them? The derivation of words can be very exciting, for many words are alive with history. Do you know where the word ‘sandwich’ comes from? All of us savor sandwiches at some point or the other without ever giving a thought to their noble inventor, the Earl of Sandwich, who refused to take time off from the gambling table to eat a regular meal. We have to thank another Earl for the word ‘cardigan’. It was the Earl of Cardigan who popularized the style of woolen jacket which he wore during the Crimean War. Words are often woven into popular phrases, most of which have an interesting legacy behind them. One such example is the ‘hat trick’ . This is a cricket phrase for taking three wickets with three successive balls. It is sometimes used outside cricket with reference to a triple success. In the early days of cricket the players used to wear top hats and a bowler performing the feat was entitled to a new hat at the expense of his club – hence, a ‘hat trick’.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dhirendra Verma
Dr. Dhirendra Verma (b. 1940) initially graduated from the Agra University (Nainital Campus) with a Master of Science degree in 1961. He had been a Rockefeller Foundation scholar at the National Institute of Virology in Pune before leaving for Canada in 1963 on a student scholarship to pursue further studies at St. Mary’s University, Halifax where he acquired an M.Ed. in Technical-Vocational Education, and subsequently a Ph.D. in the Administration of Vocational Education from Dalhousie University. The title of his doctoral thesis was “Technical-Vocational Education in Canada within the Context of Social, Economic, and Political Change: 1875-1975â€. He worked at Canada’s Nova Scotia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Laboratory Technology for over 12 years before returning to India in 1978 to join the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) at New Delhi as a Senior Fellow, and supervised its vocational education programmes at the national level. Presently, he is associated with the Ministry of Health, State of Kuwait as a Senior Consultant and looks after the training requirements of its medical and paramedical personnel. He has published numerous research articles on issues and problems confronting vocational education in some of the leading international journals of Education. He has served as an UNESCO Consultant, contributing to the vocational component of its ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) project in the mid 70s.
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