Author: Langenscheidt Publishers
Publisher: Langenscheidt Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780887294525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Matchbook-sized Lilliputs -- international favorites for more than 75 years -- make terrific impulse purchases. A great novelty gift. Best of all, Lilliputs are real usable dictionaries. The perfect fit for travelers, students, collectors, or anyone who needs just the right word at just the right moment.
Lilliput Dictionary
Author: Langenscheidt Publishers
Publisher: Langenscheidt Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780887294525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Matchbook-sized Lilliputs -- international favorites for more than 75 years -- make terrific impulse purchases. A great novelty gift. Best of all, Lilliputs are real usable dictionaries. The perfect fit for travelers, students, collectors, or anyone who needs just the right word at just the right moment.
Publisher: Langenscheidt Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780887294525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Matchbook-sized Lilliputs -- international favorites for more than 75 years -- make terrific impulse purchases. A great novelty gift. Best of all, Lilliputs are real usable dictionaries. The perfect fit for travelers, students, collectors, or anyone who needs just the right word at just the right moment.
Lilliput Dictionary
Author: Langenscheidt Staff
Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers
ISBN: 9780887295218
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Matchbook-sized Lilliputs -- international favorites for more than 75 years -- make terrific impulse purchases. A great novelty gift. Best of all, Lilliputs are real usable dictionaries. The perfect fit for travelers, students, collectors, or anyone who needs just the right word at just the right moment.
Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers
ISBN: 9780887295218
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Matchbook-sized Lilliputs -- international favorites for more than 75 years -- make terrific impulse purchases. A great novelty gift. Best of all, Lilliputs are real usable dictionaries. The perfect fit for travelers, students, collectors, or anyone who needs just the right word at just the right moment.
World Dictionaries in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN: 9781603037228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN: 9781603037228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
World Dictionaries in Print 1983
Author:
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Gulliver in Lilliput
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher: MACMILLAN
ISBN: 9780230026766
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Reading Level: StarterSpecial features include:Extra grammar and vocabulary exercisesNotes about the storyPoints for Understanding comprehension questionsFree resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets at www.macmillanenglish.com/readersGlossaryMacmillan Readers:This series provides a wide variety of enjoyable reading material for all learners of English. Macmillan Readers are retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles as well as specially written sto
Publisher: MACMILLAN
ISBN: 9780230026766
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
"Reading Level: StarterSpecial features include:Extra grammar and vocabulary exercisesNotes about the storyPoints for Understanding comprehension questionsFree resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets at www.macmillanenglish.com/readersGlossaryMacmillan Readers:This series provides a wide variety of enjoyable reading material for all learners of English. Macmillan Readers are retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles as well as specially written sto
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
Author: Pip Williams
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1984820737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1984820737
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD
An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology
Author: Anatoly Liberman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology "by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one. In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the entries are among the most commonly used words in English, including man, boy, girl, bird, brain, understand, key, ever, " and yet." Others are slang: mooch, nudge, pimp, filch, gawk, " and skedaddle." Many, such as beacon, oat, hemlock, ivy," and toad," have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more recently, for example, slang, kitty-corner, " and Jeep." They are all united by their etymological obscurity. This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the English language. "Anatoly Liberman is one of the leading scholars in the field of English etymology. Undoubtedly his work will be an indispensable tool for the ongoing revision of the etymological component of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary."" --Bernhard Diensberg, OED" consultant, French etymologies Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. He has published many works, including 16 books, most recently Word Origins . . . and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone."
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology "by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one. In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the entries are among the most commonly used words in English, including man, boy, girl, bird, brain, understand, key, ever, " and yet." Others are slang: mooch, nudge, pimp, filch, gawk, " and skedaddle." Many, such as beacon, oat, hemlock, ivy," and toad," have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more recently, for example, slang, kitty-corner, " and Jeep." They are all united by their etymological obscurity. This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the English language. "Anatoly Liberman is one of the leading scholars in the field of English etymology. Undoubtedly his work will be an indispensable tool for the ongoing revision of the etymological component of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary."" --Bernhard Diensberg, OED" consultant, French etymologies Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. He has published many works, including 16 books, most recently Word Origins . . . and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone."
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-related Books, 1966-1974
Author: Annie M. Brewer
Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher: Detroit : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description