Author: Rube Allyn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Dictionary of Fishes: Eleventh Edition
An Universal Etymological English Dictionary ... Eleventh edition, etc
Literally Speaking
Author: Jennifer L. Hughes
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1436305012
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Literally Speaking and Literally Speaking Too are books which consist of a total of 200 artistic depictions of clichés (expressions we've used so much that we take the meaning for granted), idioms (vernacular particular to a geographical region), plays on homophones (using identically-sounding words for their alternate meanings), and/or use of terms ironically (to express something other than the literal meaning). The website address is at least a quadruple pun (www.GetLiterallySpeaking.org): you get it (gain control of the book by picking it up), you get it (you understand it!), you get it (you buy it) and you get literally speaking (as in, you start doing it!). The website is designed for an ongoing exploration of language and a really good time.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1436305012
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Literally Speaking and Literally Speaking Too are books which consist of a total of 200 artistic depictions of clichés (expressions we've used so much that we take the meaning for granted), idioms (vernacular particular to a geographical region), plays on homophones (using identically-sounding words for their alternate meanings), and/or use of terms ironically (to express something other than the literal meaning). The website address is at least a quadruple pun (www.GetLiterallySpeaking.org): you get it (gain control of the book by picking it up), you get it (you understand it!), you get it (you buy it) and you get literally speaking (as in, you start doing it!). The website is designed for an ongoing exploration of language and a really good time.
On the Anatomy of Vertebrates ...: Fishes and reptiles
Author: Richard Owen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Comparative
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Synopsis of Sundry Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff, Navigation, and Other Acts, for the Year Ending ...
Author: United States. Dept. of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Vols. for 1891-1897 include decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Vols. for 1891-1897 include decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.
Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.
Treasury Decisions Under Tariff and Internal Revenue Laws
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
1890-1926 include also Decisions of the Board of U.S. General Appraisers no. 1-9135.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
1890-1926 include also Decisions of the Board of U.S. General Appraisers no. 1-9135.
Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, Industrial Alcohol, Narcotic and Other Laws
Author: United States. Dept. of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Word by Word
Author: Kory Stamper
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 110197026X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 110197026X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“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.
The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 16041755
Author: De Witt T. Starnes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277729
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein, Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946, which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277729
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to have this classic work available again to all students of linguistic history. In its new edition the book has been vastly enhanced by a lengthy and invaluable introduction by Gabriele Stein, Professor of English Linguistics in Heidelberg and author of The English Dictionary before Cawdrey (1985). In her introduction to the present volume she sets out in scholarly detail the work that has emerged since 1946, which makes this study of the English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson as complete as the original authors themselves would have wished.