Author: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780550100580
Category : Scrabble (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The only official publication in the UK that combines the word lists of Official Scrabble Words (the UK authority) and the Official Tournament and Club Word List (the North American authority). Official Scrabble Words International is an essential adjudication tool for tournament player and valuable reference tool for all those wishing to play with an increased vocabulary.
Chambers Official Scrabble Words
Author: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780550100580
Category : Scrabble (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The only official publication in the UK that combines the word lists of Official Scrabble Words (the UK authority) and the Official Tournament and Club Word List (the North American authority). Official Scrabble Words International is an essential adjudication tool for tournament player and valuable reference tool for all those wishing to play with an increased vocabulary.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780550100580
Category : Scrabble (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The only official publication in the UK that combines the word lists of Official Scrabble Words (the UK authority) and the Official Tournament and Club Word List (the North American authority). Official Scrabble Words International is an essential adjudication tool for tournament player and valuable reference tool for all those wishing to play with an increased vocabulary.
The Making of a Name
Author: Steve Rivkin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199883408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
How do brand names differ from other names, and what goes into making a good name great and a bad name ghastly? Knowing this can spell the difference between bankruptcy and marketplace triumph. In this indispensable guide, the authors share the secrets of successful brand names--how they've indelibly stamped cultures around the world; who makes them; why they're made; and how they're compiled, bought, sold, and protected. The book outlines what kind of names exist--the initialized, descriptive, allusive, and coined. How namers surf on brainwaves. The do's, don'ts, and nevers of naming, how the structure of names is built from the ground up and how their sounds are engineered. Why names symbolize benefits. Where in the world brands may be found, and what will become of them. Fast-paced, illustration-packed, gazing at the past and probing into the future, this is the definitive book on naming. The Making of A Name is the one book anyone interested in "owned words" must have.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199883408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
How do brand names differ from other names, and what goes into making a good name great and a bad name ghastly? Knowing this can spell the difference between bankruptcy and marketplace triumph. In this indispensable guide, the authors share the secrets of successful brand names--how they've indelibly stamped cultures around the world; who makes them; why they're made; and how they're compiled, bought, sold, and protected. The book outlines what kind of names exist--the initialized, descriptive, allusive, and coined. How namers surf on brainwaves. The do's, don'ts, and nevers of naming, how the structure of names is built from the ground up and how their sounds are engineered. Why names symbolize benefits. Where in the world brands may be found, and what will become of them. Fast-paced, illustration-packed, gazing at the past and probing into the future, this is the definitive book on naming. The Making of A Name is the one book anyone interested in "owned words" must have.
Word Freak
Author: Stefan Fatsis
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547524315
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” (San Jose Mercury News). A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game’s strange, potent hold over them—and him. At least thirty million American homes have a Scrabble set—but the game’s most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of “living room players.” Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic; a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earned him the nickname “G.I. Joel”; a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore’s inner city; the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles; and the author himself, who over the course of the book is transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut. Fatsis begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. Before long he finds himself at tournaments, socializing—and competing—with Scrabble’s elite. But this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. Word Freak extends its reach even farther, pondering the light Scrabble throws on such notions as brilliance, memory, competition, failure, and hope. It is a geography of obsession that celebrates the uncanny powers locked in all of us, “a can’t-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage” (Los Angeles Times). “Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing.” —The Atlantic Monthly This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547524315
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” (San Jose Mercury News). A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game’s strange, potent hold over them—and him. At least thirty million American homes have a Scrabble set—but the game’s most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of “living room players.” Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic; a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earned him the nickname “G.I. Joel”; a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore’s inner city; the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles; and the author himself, who over the course of the book is transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut. Fatsis begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. Before long he finds himself at tournaments, socializing—and competing—with Scrabble’s elite. But this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. Word Freak extends its reach even farther, pondering the light Scrabble throws on such notions as brilliance, memory, competition, failure, and hope. It is a geography of obsession that celebrates the uncanny powers locked in all of us, “a can’t-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage” (Los Angeles Times). “Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing.” —The Atlantic Monthly This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
The Chambers Dictionary
Author: Editors of Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1886
Book Description
Combines authoritative definitions with the occasional humorous one.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1886
Book Description
Combines authoritative definitions with the occasional humorous one.
Game Preview
Author: Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher: Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
A guide for game preview and rules: history, definitions, classification, theory, video game consoles, cheating, links, etc. While many different subdivisions have been proposed, anthropologists classify games under three major headings, and have drawn some conclusions as to the social bases that each sort of game requires. They divide games broadly into, games of pure skill, such as hopscotch and target shooting; games of pure strategy, such as checkers, go, or tic-tac-toe; and games of chance, such as craps and snakes and ladders. A guide for game preview and rules: history, definitions, classification, theory, video game consoles, cheating, links, etc.
Publisher: Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
A guide for game preview and rules: history, definitions, classification, theory, video game consoles, cheating, links, etc. While many different subdivisions have been proposed, anthropologists classify games under three major headings, and have drawn some conclusions as to the social bases that each sort of game requires. They divide games broadly into, games of pure skill, such as hopscotch and target shooting; games of pure strategy, such as checkers, go, or tic-tac-toe; and games of chance, such as craps and snakes and ladders. A guide for game preview and rules: history, definitions, classification, theory, video game consoles, cheating, links, etc.
The Scrabble Book
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781850515142
Category : Scrabble (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781850515142
Category : Scrabble (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Language Today
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Staff
Publisher: 범문사
ISBN: 9780877792208
Category : Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes more than 100,000 words that are acceptable for playing Scrabble, with parts of speech, varient forms, and definitions.
Publisher: 범문사
ISBN: 9780877792208
Category : Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes more than 100,000 words that are acceptable for playing Scrabble, with parts of speech, varient forms, and definitions.
A History of the Chambers Dictionary
Author: Mariusz Kaminski
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110312735
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the literature on English lexicography there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular dictionaries that have been around for many years in English-speaking countries. A dictionary like Chambers deserves special attention because of its long tradition that goes back to the nineteenth century. Although it has gone through numerous editions, its history has received little attention from scholars. The book traces the development of the Chambers Dictionary from its origins to the present time by comparing corresponding parts of successive editions of the dictionary. This comparative approach aims to determine major trends in the evolution of the dictionary. It will provide scholars and interested students with insights into the Chambers lexicographers’ work, the goals they aimed to achieve, and the problems they had to face when revising the dictionary.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110312735
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the literature on English lexicography there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular dictionaries that have been around for many years in English-speaking countries. A dictionary like Chambers deserves special attention because of its long tradition that goes back to the nineteenth century. Although it has gone through numerous editions, its history has received little attention from scholars. The book traces the development of the Chambers Dictionary from its origins to the present time by comparing corresponding parts of successive editions of the dictionary. This comparative approach aims to determine major trends in the evolution of the dictionary. It will provide scholars and interested students with insights into the Chambers lexicographers’ work, the goals they aimed to achieve, and the problems they had to face when revising the dictionary.
Winning Words for Wordgame Players
Author: Bob Jackman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291740422
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A compilation of two, three and four-letter words designed as a learning and reference tool for wordgame players, in particular Scrabble. It groups words according to length, familiarity, part of speech and hook status and contains definitions of all the unusual short words.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291740422
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A compilation of two, three and four-letter words designed as a learning and reference tool for wordgame players, in particular Scrabble. It groups words according to length, familiarity, part of speech and hook status and contains definitions of all the unusual short words.