Author: Paul Hellweg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Author: Paul Hellweg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853263125
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Robert H. Hill
Publisher: Wordsworth Edition
ISBN: 9781853263088
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Fred Sedgwick
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847062741
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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An invaluable guide to the fascinating origins of everyday words crafted into pithy annecdotes and facts.

Author: Anu Garg
Publisher: Wiley (TP)
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The author of the "A Word a Day" Web site profiles unique English words in over fifty categories--such as "Words for Odds and Ends" and "Words Not to Put on Your Résumé"--providing definitions, etymologies, and usage examples.

Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781853263460
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Anu Garg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780471778783
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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An all-new collection of unusual and intriguing words, drawn from the author's beloved e-mail newsletter In 1994, Anu Garg began A Word A Day (AWAD), a free e-mail service that delivers a new word every weekday, accompanied by a definition, etymology, sample usage, and commentary. Each week has a different theme, and at the end of the week, Garg sends out a newsletter with enthusiastic feedback from the more than half-million AWAD subscribers around the world. Now, in this encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Garg offers 52 new delightfully themed chapters-ranging from 'Words Formed Erroneously' and 'Words of Horse-related Origins' to 'Words Borrowed from Yiddish' and 'Red-Herring Words.' In them, readers will discover a treasure trove of 260 curious and compelling new words, including agelast, bissextile, cockamamie, cumshaw, disembogue, dragoman, fartlek, manitou, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, sennight, tattersall, yegg, zaftig, and zugzwang. For A Word A Day subscribers and word buffs everywhere, this book will make the perfect gift. Anu Garg (Seattle, WA) is the founder of Wordsmith.org, a community of some 600,000 word lovers in 200 countries. The author of A Word A Day (0-471-23023-4), he writes about language-related issues for magazines and newspapers and speaks internationally.

Author: Mikael Sundström
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1789900514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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If you thought a book about thesis writing would make for wearisome reading, think again! In seven entertaining and enlightening chapters, Mikael Sundström sheds light on the trials and tribulations of academic writing, offering guidance on how to become a doyen of academic disaster – and, more importantly, how to avoid that fate.

Author: Floriana Popescu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527521079
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Intended to bridge the gap between two languages of the Indo-European family, this is the first comprehensive bifocal approach to lexicological aspects. Through its theoretical distinctions and applications, the book recommends itself to language professionals and to any reader interested in learning more about words. It starts with a brief theoretical account of overlapping terms, which are given crystal-clear disambiguations. The book then focuses on structural representations of word formations and word relationships, outlining their hierarchicalness and branching directions and revealing various levels of materialization entailed by lexical productivity and frequency of occurrence. Each of these hierarchies defines its related techniques and explains lexical creations, adaptations or adoptions and interrelationships. The approach adopted here proves English to be consistent with formative and sense-related hierarchies, and shows it to have reached a climax in language evolution with its status of a global language, making it the standard in comparative linguistics.

Author: Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141905654
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1044

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The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.