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Author : Lester V. Berrey,Melvin Van den Bark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : OCLC:311365733
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780307813442
The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather new materials diligently. In 1945 those which related to the first six chapters of The American Language were published as Supplement I; the present volume contains those new materials which relate to the other chapters. The ground thus covered in Supplement II is as follows: 1. American Pronunciation. Its history. Its divergence from English usage. The regional and racial dialects. 2. American Spelling. The influence of Noah Webster upon it. Its characters today. The simplified spelling movement. The treatment of loan words. Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation. 3. The Common Speech. Outlines of its grammar. Its verbs, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The double negative. Other peculiarities. 4. Proper Names in America. Surnames. Given-names. Place-names. Other names. 5. American Slang. Its origin and history. The argot of various racial and occupational groups. Although the text of Supplement II is related to that of The American Language, it is an independent work that may be read profitably by persons who do not know either The American Language or Supplement I.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780307808783
Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: • the general character of American English • loan-words and non-English influences • expletives and forbidden words • American slang • the future of the language • and much, much more. Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.
Author : Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : English language
ISBN : 1001405064
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1001405056
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520321878
Author : Angus Trumble
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fingers
ISBN : 9780522857696
In this collision between art and science, history and pop culture, the acclaimed art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle. His inquiries into its representation in art take us from Buddhist statues in Kyoto to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, from cave art to Picasso's Guernica, from Van Dyck's and Rubens's winning ways with gloves to the longstanding French taste for tapering digits. But Trumble also asks intriguing questions about the finger in general: How do fingers work, and why do most of us have five on each hand? Why do we bite our nails? This witty, odd, and fascinating book is filled with diverse anecdotes about cow-milking, the fingerprint of a grave robber in King Tut's tomb, and a woman in Trumble's local bank whose immensely long, coiled fingernails do not prevent her from signing a check. Side by side with historical discussions of rings and gloves and nail varnish are meditations on the finger's essential role in writing, speech, sports, crime, law, sex, and, of course, the eponymous show of contempt.
Author : John F. Mariani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781620401613
First published in 1983, John Mariani's Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink has long been the go-to book on all things culinary. Last updated in the late 1990s, it is now back in a handsome, fully illustrated revised and expanded edition that catches readers up on more than a decade of culinary evolution and innovation: from the rise of the Food Network to the local food craze; from the DIY movement, with sausage stuffers, hard cider brewers, and pickle makers on every Brooklyn or Portland street corner; to the food truck culture that proliferates in cities across the country. Whether high or low food culture, there's no question American food has changed radically in the last fourteen years, just as the market for it has expanded exponentially. In addition to updates on food trends and other changes to American gastronomy since 1999, for the first time the Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink will include biographical entries, both historical and contemporary, from Fanny Farmer and Julia Child to the Galloping Gourmet and James Beard to current high-profile players Mario Batali and Danny Meyer, among more than one hundred others. And no gastronomic encyclopedia would be complete without recipes. Mariani has included five hundred classics, from Hard Sauce to Scrapple, Baked Alaska to Blondies. An American Larousse Gastronomique, John Mariani's completely up-to-date encyclopedia will be a welcome acquisition for a new generation of food lovers.
Author : W.J. Kirwin,G. M. Story,J.D.A. Widdowson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781442690653
The Dictionary of Newfoundland English, first published in 1982 to regional, national, and international acclaim, is a historical dictionary that gives the pronunciations and definitions for words that the editors have called "Newfoundland English." The varieties of English spoken in Newfoundland date back four centuries, mainly to the early seventeenth-century migratory English fishermen of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, and to the seventeenth- to the nineteenth-century immigrants chiefly from southeastern Ireland. Culled from a vast reading of books, newspapers, and magazines, this book is the most sustained reading ever undertaken of the written words of this province. The dictionary gives not only the meaning of words, but also presents each word with its variant spellings. Moreover, each definition is succeeded by an all-important quotation of usage which illustrates the typical context in which word is used. This well-researched, impressive work of scholarship illustrates how words and phrases have evolved and are used in everyday speech and writing in a specific geographical area. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English is one of the most important, comprehensive, and thorough works dealing with Newfoundland. Its publication, a great addition to Newfoundlandia, Canadiana, and lexicography, provides more than a regional lexicon. In fact, this entertaining and delightful book presents a panoramic view of the social, cultural, and natural history, as well as the geography and economics, of the quintessential lifestyle of one of Canada's oldest European-settled areas. This second edition contains a supplement offering approximately 1500 new or expanded entries, an increase of more than 30 per cent over the first edition. Besides new words, the supplement includes modified and additional senses of old words and fresh derivations and usages.
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082905855
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129028820
Includes Part 1A: Books, Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals and Part 2: Periodicals. (Part 2: Periodicals incorporates Part 2, Volume 41, 1946, New Series)
Author : Richard A. Spears
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780071434102
This "thesaurus of slang" contains more than 9,000 expressions. Entries are illustrated by at least two English sentences each and are organized by topic, which makes finding the right expression quick and easy. Includes an alphabetical index.
Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UCSC:32106021028300
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117841028
Author : Margaret Taylor,Ronald R. Powell
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 081082244X
A perennial favorite. ...invaluable as a learning tool. I highly recommend it. --PREVIEW