Subject Historical Dictionary

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The Historical Dictionary of Golfing  Terms
>From 1500 to the Present  
By Peter Davies 
... 
“Peter Davies has undertaken a monumental task and carried it off in fine  
style. His dictionary will make a valuable addition to any serious golfer’s  
library and should be one that never gathers dust.”—Arnold Palmer 
“A fascinating look into the often arcane and sometimes amusing language of  
our game. I’m sure golfers and golf fans will find it enlightening and  
entertaining reading.”—Jack Nicklaus 
“As golfers we all respect the traditions of the game which separate it from  
any other sport. Peter Davies’s definitions help us all to understand the  
evolution and facets of the game that we just take for granted today.”—Gary  
Player 
... 
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  
enthusiasm and enjoyment of golf are stamped on every page of this authoritative 
 book. 
... 
Peter Davies was the executive editor of the first edition of The American  
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and a coauthor of The  American 
Heritage Word Frequency Book.



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