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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Michael Montgomery
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN: 9781903688618
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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From Ulster to America documents nearly four hundred terms and meanings-- each with quotations from both sides of the Atlantic--contributed to American English by these eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster. Drawing on letters they sent back to their homeland and on other archival documents associated with their settlement, it shows that Ulster emigrants and their children contributed as much to regional American English as any other group. The numerous quotations bring alive the speech of earlier days on both sides of the Atlantic, and extend understanding of the culture, mannerisms, and life of those pioneering times.

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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Vols. 42-49 include the Proceedings of the American Numismatics Society, 1908-1915/16.

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Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: John Smyth Crone
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Frank Henry Norton
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Vols. 42-49 include the Proceedings of the American numismatics society, 1908-1915/16.

Author: Albert Romer Frey
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Author: David James O'Donoghue
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1396

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Author: Gerald Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351809903
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language. Unconvincing derivations have been suggested from Yiddish to Gaelic and Italian, and thus far consensus among lexicographers has leaned toward referencing the word as ‘origin unknown’. In this study, the authors present convincing and important new evidence in favour of the derivation of kibosh from the word for a fearsome Middle Eastern whip, known as the kurbash. This monograph is one of the most significant etymological works directed at a single phrase. It is the gold standard on deep-drill, focused and exhaustive single-word lexicography and will be of interest to lexicographers and linguists in the relevant fields.