The New Word

Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0195218892

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Oxford English Dictionary by John A. Simpson Pdf

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781439139400

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The Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer Pdf

Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.

Author : W. Foster,H. Bryant
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781921844768

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The New Graded Word-Book for Australian Schools by W. Foster,H. Bryant Pdf

Do you know Why 'The dog followed Harry and I' Is Wrong? How to avoid the construction 'The reason why . . . was because'? When to use 'fewer' and when to use 'less'? All this; and more; was taught in Australian schools many decades ago.

Author : Elliot Steven Carruthers
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1492750069

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New Word a Day by Elliot Steven Carruthers Pdf

Improve your vocabulary with a new word a day! 365 words in a calendar format help you to learn one new word each day. Memory tricks and riddles make it fun and easy. Phonetic and simple explanations help you to use the words in a conversation. Making New Word A Day both enjoyable and entertaining!

Author : Jon Gordon,Dan Britton,Jimmy Page
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781119430315

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One Word for Kids by Jon Gordon,Dan Britton,Jimmy Page Pdf

From the authors who created the One Word movement, impacting schools, businesses, and sports teams around the world, comes a charming fable that can be read and shared by everyone. If you could choose only one word to help you have your best year ever, what would it be? Love? Fun? Believe? Brave? It’s prob­ably different for everyone. How you find your word is just as important as the word itself. And once you know your word, what do you do with it? In One Word for Kids, bestselling author Jon Gordon—along with coauthors Dan Britton and Jimmy Page—asks these questions to children and adults of all ages, teaching an important life lesson in the process. This engaging, fully illustrated fable follows Stevie, a young boy falling asleep on the first day of school. His teacher gives the class an assignment: to find the one word that will help them have their best year ever. To discover their one word, they must look inside themselves, look up, and look out. At home, Stevie is upset be­cause he can’t find his word. After his dad offers some helpful advice, Stevie excitedly begins the quest for his word. His search helps him discover a lot about himself, what he loves, and what is important to him. An easy read with a powerful message, One Word for Kids appeals to readers of all ages and is an ideal entry point into discussing a valuable lesson in a fun and engaging way.

Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004988478

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The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten Pdf

Author : Allen Upward
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465580795

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The New Word by Allen Upward Pdf

Author : Charles E. Zecher
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781982273606

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The New Word for the New Age by Charles E. Zecher Pdf

THE NEW WORD FOR THE NEW AGE The information provided in this book came from thousands of questions asked by the author’s very proficient use of the pendulum. You will be truly amazed at the variety, specificity and depth of information provided on the pages of this book. The deepest level of human consciousness from which information can be received is the higher self. All the information herein was channeled from the higher self through the use of the pendulum. The pendulum is simply a tool that easily enables a person to access the higher self. Like psychics, the extent and accuracy of the readings depend on the level of evolution of the soul and consequently the level of evolution of the higher self.

Author : Anu Garg
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780470324752

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Another Word A Day by Anu Garg Pdf

A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic words In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations. Praise for a word a day "Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" --Barbara Wallraff, Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court "AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories." --John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary

Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781101970263

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Word by Word by Kory Stamper Pdf

“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 : Marcus J. Borg
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062082121

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Evolution of the Word by Marcus J. Borg Pdf

By presenting the New Testament books in the order they were written, bestselling Bible scholar Marcus Borg reveals how spiritually and politically radical the early Jesus movement began and how it slowly became domesticated. Evolution of the Word is an incredible value: not only are readers getting a deeply insightful new book from the author of Speaking Christian and Jesus, but also the full-text of the New Testament—and one of the only Bibles organized in chronological order and including explanatory annotations that give readers a more informed understanding of the Scripture that is so close to their hearts and lives.

Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1949-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780394800752

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Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss Pdf

Join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss’s Caldecott Honor–winning picture book about a king’s magical mishap! Bored with rain, sunshine, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green goo called Oobleck—which soon wreaks havock all over his kingdom! But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the stickiest problems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : English language
ISBN : 0529039605

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Webster's New World 33,000 Word Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Shariatmadari
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781324004257

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Don't Believe a Word by David Shariatmadari Pdf

A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Think you know language? Think again. There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is present. The language you speak could make you more prone to accidents. Swear words are produced in a special part of your brain. Over the past few decades, we have reached new frontiers of linguistic knowledge. Linguists can now explain how and why language changes, describe its structures, and map its activity in the brain. But despite these advances, much of what people believe about language is based on folklore, instinct, or hearsay. We imagine a word’s origin is it’s “true” meaning, that foreign languages are full of “untranslatable” words, or that grammatical mistakes undermine English. In Don’t Believe A Word, linguist David Shariatmadari takes us on a mind-boggling journey through the science of language, urging us to abandon our prejudices in a bid to uncover the (far more interesting) truth about what we do with words. Exploding nine widely held myths about language while introducing us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics, Shariatmadari is an energetic guide to the beauty and quirkiness of humanity’s greatest achievement.

Author : Patrick Schreiner
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802497925

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The Visual Word by Patrick Schreiner Pdf

The New Testament shouldn’t be complicated. So why are we often confused? Every Christian wants to love the Bible. But let’s face it: we sometimes get lost in all the names, places, and doctrines that we find in its pages. Who wrote this epistle? Which book is about justification? Joy? Jesus? Aren’t they all about him? The New Testament contains complex ideas and multiple genres. Keeping it straight can be hard to do. Wouldn’t it be nice if somebody who understands the big picture would put it together for us in one place? Biblical scholar and seminary professor Patrick Schreiner draws from his years of experience as a teacher to offer a simple and memorable way of understanding Scripture. And he doesn’t do it by throwing big words at you. The contours of the New Testament and its underlying structure are depicted in visual format along with Schreiner’s clear explanations. In The Visual Word, the Bible comes alive because you can see it pictured before your eyes. By taking a graphic approach, you’ll notice connections you’ve never seen before. Gain insights you’ve missed all these years. And discover an overall pattern that makes each separate piece fall perfectly into place. Don’t settle for mere summaries of the New Testament. Let Schreiner’s concise words and crisp images work together to help you encounter the Living Word in a fresh way.