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Author: Dick Thurner Publisher: McFarland ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
"Portmanteau" (a suitcase with equal halves) means two words packed together to convey meanings more precisely, colorfully, vibrantly or whimsically. Over 1,600 blend words are defined, with the root words given for each. Over 600 trademarks are included, with a brief definition and the tradename holder.
Author: Dick Thurner Publisher: McFarland ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
"Portmanteau" (a suitcase with equal halves) means two words packed together to convey meanings more precisely, colorfully, vibrantly or whimsically. Over 1,600 blend words are defined, with the root words given for each. Over 600 trademarks are included, with a brief definition and the tradename holder.
Author: Henry Watson Fowler Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199661359 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 920
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to the English language provides detailed and expert information on grammar, style, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation with clear explanations and example sentences.
Author: Bryan A. Garner Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 768
Book Description
In an age of linguistic uncertainty, this book gives surefooted guidance on the direct, precise, and robust use of the English language. And although the book is scholarly, it is leavened with a dry wit. It is at once entertaining and educational.
Author: Jane Solomon Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books ISBN: 1786038110 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 115
Book Description
â??What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.
Author: Kory Stamper Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 110197026X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 322
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“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
Author: Dick Thurner
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Author: Henry Watson Fowler
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Author: Bryan A. Garner
Author: Jane Solomon
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