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Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780765197931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains over 1,500 biographies of the women who have shaped American history and life.
Author: Noah Webster
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 1122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeri Chase Ferris
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547935412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGolden Kite Award for Nonfiction Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty years writing two thousand pages to accomplish that, and the first 100 percent American dictionary was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old. This clever, hilariously illustrated account shines a light on early American history and the life of a man who could not rest until he’d achieved his dream. An illustrated chronology of Webster’s life makes this a picture perfect bi-og-ra-phy [noun: a written history of a person's life].
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster Incorporated
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 1192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biographical dictionary which profiles over 30,000 individuals, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0691210179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780877797319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefines the core vocabulary of English words and phrases, and includes synonyms and brief word histories.
Author: Editors of Editors of Webster's New World College Dictionaries
Publisher: Webster's New World
Published: 2020-06
Total Pages: 1728
ISBN-13: 9780358126614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWebster's New World College Dictionary is a favorite of newsrooms and copyeditors nationwide, and it is the official dictionary of The Associated Press Stylebook.This dictionary features a clear and accessible defining style, abundant synonym notes, full-page tables and charts, hundreds of drawings that complement the definitions, and authoritative guidance on usage and style points. It also includes extensive coverage of Americanisms (words, phrases, and senses coined by an American or first used in the United States). It has added nearly 5,000 new entries, including terms from the areas of arts and sports, science and medicine, computers and the Internet, food, business, politics, and law. Tens of thousands of revisions have been made to existing senses, to bring them up-to-date and to reflect current usage. A reference supplement includes: Rules of punctuation, Roman numerals, Calendars, Monetary units, Currency symbols, Names for large number, Books of the Bible, Meteorological data, Commonly used weights and measures, Planets of the solar system, Geologic time scale, and Periodic table of the elements.
Author: Merriam-Webster (Firma)
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780831791650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefines over 63,000 words and phrases, based on examples from current usage.
Author: Merriam-Webster
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780877798569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn all-new affordable dictionary designed to help students learn spoken and written English as it is actually used. Includes more than 54,000 words and phrases and 15,000 idioms, along with collocations and commonly used phrases from American and British English.
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.
