Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199886032
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
Author: David Grambs
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393292517
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear. This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an indispensable resource for every lover of language. A selection: egrutten: having a face swollen from weeping numquid: an inquisitive person sardoodledum: drama that is contrived, stagy, or unrealistic mimp: to purse one's lips
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Author: Robert Blair St. George
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501717863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define early America in terms of conventional geographical, chronological, or subdisciplinary boundaries, their essays span landscapes from New England to Peru, time periods from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, and topics from religion to race and novels to nationalism. In his introduction Robert Blair St. George offers an overview of the genealogy of ideas and key terms appearing in the book.Part I, "Interrogating America," then challenges readers to rethink the meaning of "early America" and its relation to postcolonial theory. In Part II, "Translation and Transculturation," essays explore how both Europeans and native peoples viewed such concepts as dissent, witchcraft, family piety, and race. The construction of individual identity and agency in Philadelphia is the focus of Part III, "Shaping Subjectivities." Finally, Part IV, "Oral Performance and Personal Power," considers the ways in which political authority and gendered resistance were established in early America.
Author: Bradley
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Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1606
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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Author: Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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Author: William Bedford Clark
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
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Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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This volume contains 16 reprinted and seven original essays. James Cox considers the vigor of American humor as an outgrowth of the nation's optimistic expansionist energies and a reflection of its political liberty and relative material prosperity, W.P. Trent discusses the principal figures and movements in the development of American humor through the 19th century, Jennette Tandy traces the development of the unlettered philosopher as a characteristic type, and Constance Rourke couples the native American comic impulse with the national character. Other essays include: Louis Budd on the humorists of the old South, Arlin Turner on realism and fantasy in Southern humor, Jesse Bier on the rise and fall of American humor, Milton Rickels on humor of the Old Southwest, Robert Micklus on colonial humor, Emily Toth on women's humor, and Hamlin Hill's postscript on the future of American humor. ISBN 0-8161-8684-7 : $35.00.
Author: William B. Cairns
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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