Author: Fred D. WhitePublisher:
ISBN: 9780618594894
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Well Crafted Argument Second Edition Plus Websters Two Pocket Dictionary
Author: Fred D. WhitePublisher:
ISBN: 9780618594894
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
Author: Merriam-Webster, IncPublisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877796046
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
A search only dictionary on the FindLaw web site that includes 10,000 definitions of legal terms.
Word by Word
Author: Kory StamperPublisher: 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 Story of Ain't
Author: David SkinnerPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062345753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
“It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edition, the dictionary that provoked America’s greatest language controversy. In those days, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster’s Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America’s newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam’s long held authoritarian principles to create a reference work that had “no traffic with…artificial notions of correctness or authority. It must be descriptive not prescriptive.” Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by “notions of correctness” set by the learned few. Dwight MacDonald, a formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster’s Third’s chief nemesis when in the pages of the New Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization.. The Story of Ain’t describes a great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, when the division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred, when the humanities and its figureheads were shunted aside by advances in scientific thinking. All the while, Skinner treats the reader to the chippy banter of the controversy’s key players. A dictionary will never again seem as important as it did in 1961.
Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language
Author: Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Based on the International Dictionary 1890 and 1900
Author: William Torrey HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
Dr. Webster's complete dictionary of the English language
Author: Noah WebsterWebster's International Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Noah WebsterHarper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage
Author: William MorrisPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Includes commentaries on the use and misuse of contemporary words and phrases.
English as a Global Language
Author: David CrystalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107611806
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.