Author: Sybil Noyes
Publisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
Author: Sybil Noyes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
The Maine Dictionary
Author: John McDonald
Publisher: Covered Bridge Press
ISBN: 9781580660570
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Covered Bridge Press
ISBN: 9781580660570
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
Author: Robert Hendrickson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438129920
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Provides definitions and examples of words and phrases used in different geographical regions of the United States.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438129920
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Provides definitions and examples of words and phrases used in different geographical regions of the United States.
Yankee Talk
Author: Robert Hendrickson
Publisher: Booksales
ISBN: 9780785815556
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Yankee Talk provides in-depth coverage of the different New England dialects and definitions of the popular phrases used.
Publisher: Booksales
ISBN: 9780785815556
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Yankee Talk provides in-depth coverage of the different New England dialects and definitions of the popular phrases used.
A Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary
Author: David A. Francis
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
ISBN: 9780864925275
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
This dictionary of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet, an aboriginal language spoken in New Brunswick and Maine, is the result of more than thirty years of collaboration among native speakers, educators, and linguists. The first of its kind in Canada, the volume contains more than 18,000 entries over 1,200 pages, including a comprehensive English index that will guides readers to discover shades of meaning and to better understand pronunciation and grammatical structure. This unprecedented book is, in many ways, more than a dictionary. An important cultural document, it contains detailed knowledge of the physical, intellectual, social, spiritual, and emotional environments of the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people. Sample sentences, taken from both oral tradition and contemporary conversation, reveal details of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet thought and culture, personal attitudes, and humour as well as a linguistic ingenuity.
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
ISBN: 9780864925275
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
This dictionary of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet, an aboriginal language spoken in New Brunswick and Maine, is the result of more than thirty years of collaboration among native speakers, educators, and linguists. The first of its kind in Canada, the volume contains more than 18,000 entries over 1,200 pages, including a comprehensive English index that will guides readers to discover shades of meaning and to better understand pronunciation and grammatical structure. This unprecedented book is, in many ways, more than a dictionary. An important cultural document, it contains detailed knowledge of the physical, intellectual, social, spiritual, and emotional environments of the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people. Sample sentences, taken from both oral tradition and contemporary conversation, reveal details of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet thought and culture, personal attitudes, and humour as well as a linguistic ingenuity.
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Maine Lingo
Author: John Gould
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608935671
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
John Gould's family first settled in Maine in 1618, so by the time he came along in the early 20th century, the Gould's were well steeped in the vernacular of the region, and his first inheritance was the turned-around, honed-down, and tuned-up language of his farming neighbors who seldom strayed beyond the village store. Maine Lingo was first compiled in 1975, when TV, radio, and other leveling media had begun to seriously erode regional speech distinctions, and this dictionary will furnish anyone interested in Maine or regional dialects with the terminologies of regular folks, from lobstermen to farmers to woodsmen. Altogether it is a fun and fascinating collection of lore, humor, and straight information that will have you able to tell your billdad from your wazzat in no time flat.
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608935671
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
John Gould's family first settled in Maine in 1618, so by the time he came along in the early 20th century, the Gould's were well steeped in the vernacular of the region, and his first inheritance was the turned-around, honed-down, and tuned-up language of his farming neighbors who seldom strayed beyond the village store. Maine Lingo was first compiled in 1975, when TV, radio, and other leveling media had begun to seriously erode regional speech distinctions, and this dictionary will furnish anyone interested in Maine or regional dialects with the terminologies of regular folks, from lobstermen to farmers to woodsmen. Altogether it is a fun and fascinating collection of lore, humor, and straight information that will have you able to tell your billdad from your wazzat in no time flat.
The Liar's Dictionary
Author: Eley Williams
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385546785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385546785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.
Dictionary of United States History, 1492-1897
Author: John Franklin Jameson
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Darby's Universal Geographical Dictionary ...
Author: Richard Brookes
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1001
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1001
Book Description