Author: Josefa HeifetzPublisher:
ISBN: 9781567315547
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Word Lover's Dictionary
Author: Josefa HeifetzPublisher:
ISBN: 9781567315547
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words
Author: Josefa HeifetzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words ...
Author: Josefa HeifetzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Mrs. Byrne dictionary
Author: Josefa Heifetz ByrnePublisher:
ISBN: 9780806504988
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mrs Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780586206003
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words
Author: Josefa HeifetzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Foyle's Philavery
Author: Christopher FoylePublisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The word 'philavery' was invented to describe this book - a collection of words chosen simply on the grounds of their aesthetic appeal. Some of these words appeal because of their aptness, some for their obscurity, some for their euphony, and some for their quirkiness.
Mrs. Byrne's dictionary of unusual, obscured, and
Author: Josefa HeifetzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780821602034
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words
Author: Josefa Heifetz ByrnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Author: Pip WilliamsPublisher: 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