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Author : John Samuel Kenyon,Thomas Albert Knott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : PSU:000027972281
Author : Frank O. Colby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015038906932
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1642 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English language
ISBN : OXFORD:600087831
Author : Naomi S. Baron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134663071
In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey through the history of the English language, showing how technology - especially email - is gradually stripping language of its formality. Drawing together strands of thinking about writing, speech, pedagogy, technology, and globalization, Naomi Baron explores the ever-changing relationship between speech and writing and considers the implications of current language trends on the future of written English. Alphabet to Email will appeal to anyone who is curious about how the English language has changed over the centuries and where it might be going.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052000546
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:49015003053999
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780767910439
One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar. As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where ‘colonel,’ ‘freight,’ ‘once,’ and ‘ache’ are strikingly at odds with their spellings.” As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for “a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth,” he proceeded to write that book—his first, inaugurating his stellar career. Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from “a, an” to “zoom,” that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, and—because it is written by Bill Bryson—often witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul or misuse or distort it.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015058364186
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280452
Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195161915
Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books, newspapers, and news magazines, this new edition has become the classic reference work praised by professional copy editors.
Author : Bryan A. Garner,Distinguished Research Professor of Law Bryan A Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197599020
The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a more balanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on the English language. To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric and style still borders on genius. From the (lost) battle between self-deprecating and self-depreciating to the misuse of it's for its, from the variant spelling patty-cake taking over pat-a-cake in American English to the singular uses of they, Garner explains the nuances of grammar and vocabulary and the linguistic blunders to which modern writers and speakers are prone, whether in word choice, syntax, phrasing, punctuation, or pronunciation. His empirical approach liberates English from two extremes: from the purists who maintain that split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions are malfeasances and from the linguistic relativists who believe that whatever people say or write must necessarily be accepted. The purpose of Garner's dictionary is to help writers, editors, and speakers use the language effectively. And it does so in a playful and persuasive way that will help you sound grammatical but relaxed, refined but natural, correct but unpedantic.
Author : Kathryn LaBouff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199886005
From the Foreword by Renee Fleming: "Kathryn LaBouff has developed an approach to singing in the English language which is wonderfully user-friendly, and which has surely saved much wear and tear on my voice. It is a technique that has empowered me with the knowledge and skills to bring a text to life and to be able to negotiate all of the sounds of the language with the least amount of effort. I have found her clever and extremely creative use of substitute consonants or combinations of consonants in creating clear diction utterly delightful because they are surprising and because they work. These techniques have been equally useful when singing in foreign languages. We sopranos are not usually known to have good diction, particularly in our high range. I found that working with Kathryn improved my ability to be understood by an enormous percentile of the audience with much less vocal fatigue than I would have experienced if left to my own devices. I have often told my colleagues enthusiastically of her interesting solutions to the frustrating problems of diction. I am thrilled that her techniques are now in print for all to benefit from them." In Singing and Communicating in English, internationally renowned diction coach Kathryn LaBouff provides singers with an accessible guide to the principles of English diction they need to communicate the text successfully. Her thorough and much sought-after technique clarifies the physiology of speech, emphasizes the studied practice of careful and articulate pronunciation, and focuses on the study of English cadence. Covering aspects of phonetics from vowels to diphthongs to fricatives, the book includes multiple practical exercises in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions, helpful diagrams, and pronunciation drills, each chosen from the most essential English art song and operatic repertoire. In addition to standard American and British English, a variety of regional dialects and accents are covered in depth. A companion website features a full range of vowel/consonant drills, poems read aloud by the author and by theater and voiceover actor John Keating, as well as an exercise answer key, and publishers' lists to help the singer locate a vast array of English language works for performance. This book is an invaluable resource for all vocalists (both professional and aspiring), diction instructors, teachers, and coaches, and choral directors. VISIT THE COMPANION SITE AT www.oup.com/us/singinginenglish
Author : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Communication
ISBN : IND:30000098043114
Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433081988010
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0140512004