Author: John Russell Bartlett
Publisher: New York : Bartlett and Welford
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Dictionary of Americanisms
Author: John Russell Bartlett
Publisher: New York : Bartlett and Welford
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Bartlett and Welford
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A glossary of words and phrases, usually regarded as peculiar to the United States
Author: John Russell Bartlett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Dictionary of Americanisms
Author: John Russell Bartlett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Glossaries Of Americanisms
Author: Daniel R Davis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113647806X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
American lexicography has a distinguished and familiar tradition. Elwyn (1859) is intended as a corrective response to the excessive identification of Americanisms, but in fact represents what one might term the ‘traditionalist’ position. Fallows (1883) is significant as a treatment of Americanisms and Briticisms for a general audience. Norton (1890) is a specific application to American political life.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113647806X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
American lexicography has a distinguished and familiar tradition. Elwyn (1859) is intended as a corrective response to the excessive identification of Americanisms, but in fact represents what one might term the ‘traditionalist’ position. Fallows (1883) is significant as a treatment of Americanisms and Briticisms for a general audience. Norton (1890) is a specific application to American political life.
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Pronunciation of Standard English in America
Author: George Phillip Krapp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136478353
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of examining pronunciation, the most important of the practical aspects of speech. Also included is American English (1921) that reflects the progressive development of the author’s ideas on the subject over a forty-year period. It consists of a critical discussion of works on Americanisms, a list of ‘exotic’ or supposed Americanisms which appear in the primary collections of Americanisms, a list of ‘real’ Americanisms which do not appear in those works, a list of misunderstood Americanisms, and finally a bibliography.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136478353
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of examining pronunciation, the most important of the practical aspects of speech. Also included is American English (1921) that reflects the progressive development of the author’s ideas on the subject over a forty-year period. It consists of a critical discussion of works on Americanisms, a list of ‘exotic’ or supposed Americanisms which appear in the primary collections of Americanisms, a list of ‘real’ Americanisms which do not appear in those works, a list of misunderstood Americanisms, and finally a bibliography.
What Is Landscape?
Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262535289
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape. “Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities that should be kept separate. But, as I learned in his book, the hollow storage area in a car driver's door was once a holster, the 'secure nesting place of a pistol.' I recommend you stow your copy there.” —The Wall Street Journal Landscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language (once spoken in coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany), it meant shoveled land: landschop. Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as landskep, which became landskip, then landscape, designating the surface of the earth shaped for human habitation. In What Is Landscape? Stilgoe maps the discovery of landscape by putting words to things, zeroing in on landscape's essence but also leading sideways expeditions through such sources as children's picture books, folklore, deeds, antique terminology, out-of-print dictionaries, and conversations with locals. (“What is that?” “Well, it's not really a slough, not really, it's a bayou...”) He offers a highly original, cogent, compact, gracefully written narrative lexicon of landscape as word, concept, and path to discoveries. What Is Landscape? is an invitation to walk, to notice, to ask: to see a sandcastle with a pinwheel at the beach and think of Dutch windmills—icons of triumph, markers of territory won from the sea; to walk in the woods and be amused by the Elizabethans' misuse of the Latin silvaticus (people of the woods) to coin the word savages; to see in a suburban front lawn a representation of the meadow of a medieval freehold. Discovering landscape is good exercise for body and for mind. This book is an essential guide and companion to that exercise—to understanding, literally and figuratively, what landscape is.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262535289
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape. “Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities that should be kept separate. But, as I learned in his book, the hollow storage area in a car driver's door was once a holster, the 'secure nesting place of a pistol.' I recommend you stow your copy there.” —The Wall Street Journal Landscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language (once spoken in coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany), it meant shoveled land: landschop. Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as landskep, which became landskip, then landscape, designating the surface of the earth shaped for human habitation. In What Is Landscape? Stilgoe maps the discovery of landscape by putting words to things, zeroing in on landscape's essence but also leading sideways expeditions through such sources as children's picture books, folklore, deeds, antique terminology, out-of-print dictionaries, and conversations with locals. (“What is that?” “Well, it's not really a slough, not really, it's a bayou...”) He offers a highly original, cogent, compact, gracefully written narrative lexicon of landscape as word, concept, and path to discoveries. What Is Landscape? is an invitation to walk, to notice, to ask: to see a sandcastle with a pinwheel at the beach and think of Dutch windmills—icons of triumph, markers of territory won from the sea; to walk in the woods and be amused by the Elizabethans' misuse of the Latin silvaticus (people of the woods) to coin the word savages; to see in a suburban front lawn a representation of the meadow of a medieval freehold. Discovering landscape is good exercise for body and for mind. This book is an essential guide and companion to that exercise—to understanding, literally and figuratively, what landscape is.
Scribners Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Reports for 1863-90 include accession lists for the year. Beginning with 1893, the apprendixes consist of the various bulletins issued by the Library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Reports for 1863-90 include accession lists for the year. Beginning with 1893, the apprendixes consist of the various bulletins issued by the Library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries)
Library school register, 1887-96
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library schools
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library schools
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description