Satisdiction

Author : Erin McKean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199886032

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean Pdf

Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Both witty and entertaining, this new paperback brings together two best-selling compendiums to all words unique and strange, Weird and Wonderful Words and More Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots. Smart and funny and with just a touch of whimsy, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words is the perfect book for reading in your sitooterie with a bumbo in your hand while mavises sing in your ear.

Author : David Grambs
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780393292510

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The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot by David Grambs Pdf

"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear. This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an indispensable resource for every lover of language. A selection: egrutten: having a face swollen from weeping numquid: an inquisitive person sardoodledum: drama that is contrived, stagy, or unrealistic mimp: to purse one's lips

Author : Robert Blair St. George
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501717864

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Possible Pasts by Robert Blair St. George Pdf

Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define early America in terms of conventional geographical, chronological, or subdisciplinary boundaries, their essays span landscapes from New England to Peru, time periods from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, and topics from religion to race and novels to nationalism. In his introduction Robert Blair St. George offers an overview of the genealogy of ideas and key terms appearing in the book.Part I, "Interrogating America," then challenges readers to rethink the meaning of "early America" and its relation to postcolonial theory. In Part II, "Translation and Transculturation," essays explore how both Europeans and native peoples viewed such concepts as dissent, witchcraft, family piety, and race. The construction of individual identity and agency in Philadelphia is the focus of Part III, "Shaping Subjectivities." Finally, Part IV, "Oral Performance and Personal Power," considers the ways in which political authority and gendered resistance were established in early America.

Author : Ammon Shea
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780141959597

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Satisdiction by Ammon Shea Pdf

Ammon Shea was ten when he first discovered the joy of reading a dictionary rather than using it to look a word up. Little did he imagine that one day he would spend over $1,000 and sacrifice an entire bookcase and a whole year to the twenty volumes that make up the king of all reference books: The Oxford English Dictionary. It was a year that changed his life, not least when he fell in love with a lexicographer. In this hilarious, personal and fascinating book, with a chapter for each letter of the alphabet, Shea introduces us to hundreds of words he discovered that deserve to see the light of day again, and explains why. Want to know the word for the area on your back that you can't reach to scratch (acnestis)? Or the term for the smell of earth just after a rainstorm (petrichor)? Or perhaps you're just looking for the word to describe that feeling of saying enough (satisdiction). This book is all you need.

Author : William Bedford Clark,W. Craig Turner
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015006191855

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Critical Essays on American Humor by William Bedford Clark,W. Craig Turner Pdf

This volume contains 16 reprinted and seven original essays. James Cox considers the vigor of American humor as an outgrowth of the nation's optimistic expansionist energies and a reflection of its political liberty and relative material prosperity, W.P. Trent discusses the principal figures and movements in the development of American humor through the 19th century, Jennette Tandy traces the development of the unlettered philosopher as a characteristic type, and Constance Rourke couples the native American comic impulse with the national character. Other essays include: Louis Budd on the humorists of the old South, Arlin Turner on realism and fantasy in Southern humor, Jesse Bier on the rise and fall of American humor, Milton Rickels on humor of the Old Southwest, Robert Micklus on colonial humor, Emily Toth on women's humor, and Hamlin Hill's postscript on the future of American humor. ISBN 0-8161-8684-7 : $35.00.

Author : Peter Force
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015009327720

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Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America by Peter Force Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1713
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : SRLF:A0005359021

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The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward Pdf

Author : Tiffany Simar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312469990

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The Window by Tiffany Simar Pdf

Author : John Seely Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B308228

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A Manual of American Literature by John Seely Hart Pdf

Author : Chris Aldrich
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781553698869

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The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families by Chris Aldrich Pdf

Do you know the difference between words such as 'ananymy', 'anonymy' and 'euonymy'? Of course you are familiar with everyday terms like 'homicide' and 'suicide', but are you sure about 'felicide', 'femicide' and 'feticide'? If not, this is the book for you. The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families is an authoritative guide to a selection of almost nine thousand terms, many of which are found in specialist technical books and journals or other arcane literary sources only, and features among other: A unique arrangement of words, based on 100 familiar and not so familiar English word roots, i.e. -agogue, -ambulation, -animity, -anthropy, -archy, -aster, -biosis, -bund, -chore, -cide, -clast, -cole, -cosmic, -cracy, -culture, -deme, -demonic, -diction, -digitate, -drome, -duction, -ennial, -esthesia, -facient, -fauna, -fluence, -form, -fuge, -glot, -glyph, -gnomy, -gon, -gony, -grade, -graphy, -iatrics/iatry, -jection, -lagnia, -latry, -lepsy, -logy, -loquy/loqu-ence, -lucence, -lude, -machy, -mancy, -mathy, -mania, -mer, -mere, -metry, -mimetic, -mnesia, -nasty, -naut, -nik, -noia, -nomy, -onymy, -orama, -orexia, -ousia, -parous, -pathy, -poeia, -phagy, -phany, -phily, -phobia, -phrenia, -phyly, -polis, -poly, -potence, -rogate, -rrhoea, -ruption, -science, -script, -sere, -sexuality, -sophy, -spermia, -stat, -staxis, -taxis, -techny, -thanasia, -theism, -therapy, -therm(ia), -trophy, -tropy, -urgy, -version, -volant, -volence, -volution, -vore, -xeny. A comprehensive survey of each root listed above and an etymological explanation of each suffix. A complete alphabetical index to all main and runon entries in the book. So whether you are a media professional, crossword enthusiast or just keen to improve your vocabulary, in The Aldrich Dictionary of Phobias and Other Word Families you will find a unique reference and a valuable supplement to your standard dictionaries.

Author : Christopher Bird
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780557033195

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The Grandiloquent Dictionary - Tenth Anniversary Edition by Christopher Bird Pdf

A printed version of the popular online Grandiloquent Dictionary, featuring over 3000 rare and obscure words. A must-have for any logophile.

Author : Augustus F. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Computer science
ISBN : UCSD:31822005432869

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Normal and Reverse English Word List by Augustus F. Brown Pdf

Author : Thomas D Bryson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477259399

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The Psychotic Preschoolers by Thomas D Bryson Pdf

Its been said there are no guarantees in life. Heres a guarantee you can bank on: Open this book and youll see that youve never met preschoolers like theseinimitable, wholly unique, and quirky, each with a distinctive agenda and way of looking at the world. These interconnected stories are full of whimsy and heart and color. They show us that our differences, rather than keeping us apart, should bind us together. Whether you relate to the beleaguered teacher or harried principal or to any one of the dazzling array of winning tots themselves (or a bit of all of them!), youre sure to laugh out loud while reading. At the books core, youll discover the power of creativity, the strength of imagination, the audacity of wishes, the excitement of synthesis, and the breathtaking potential of our minds. With unforgettable and vividly-drawn characters like Clarice (and the Odor Police), Jack (and the Intolerable Yak), and Abby (and the Bit Too Grabby), theres something for everyone, of all temperaments and ages. The Psychotic Preschoolers is perfect as a collection of read-aloud bedtime stories for kids or as a fun way for adults to de-stress after another day in the grind. Whether you savor each charmingly rhymed and cleverly-conceived story on an individual basis, or plunge into them all and appreciate the breadth and scope of the entire book, youll come away with new admiration for and insight into the child mind, a mind that is not inferior to the adult version in any way, and actually, possesses a special clarity all its own. It is that sparkling specialness that the author has captured in these pages. And no matter how grumpy your day may have made you, you cant help but smile when you powwow with these preschoolers guaranteed!

Author : Michael G. Kammen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Memory
ISBN : 9780195130911

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In the Past Lane by Michael G. Kammen Pdf

Michael Kammen is a major American historian, whose books have received the Bancroft and Parkman prizes. This book collects his essays on American culture, of which he is one of the major historians.

Author : Nathaniel Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022502921

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The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. Edited by David Pulsifer by Nathaniel Ward Pdf