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Author: Dick Thurner
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 0199661359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Amrita Sharma
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9788173590696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Will Grimshaw
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Published: 1848
Total Pages: 304
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0199208271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Published: 2008-02
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1554532663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated version of the classic nonsense poem from "Through the Looking Glass."
Author: Jane Solomon
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1786038110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKâ??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
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 110197026X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“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: William Grimshaw
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Published: 1821
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard Marie Dupriez
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780802068033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, "Gradus" calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics, socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics, combining them in ways which enable readers quickly to comprehend the codes and conventions which together make up 'literarity.'
