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Author : Laurence Urdang
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1579120601
Presents pronunciations and definitions for common terms often misrepresented in oral and written communication.
Author : Laurence Urdang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1008860321
Author : Laurence Urdang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:221370139
Author : Laurence Urdang
Publisher : Crown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1975-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0812962443
Author : Laurence Urdang
Publisher : Crown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015015052296
Author : Laurence Urdang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015036874033
Author : Charles Harrington Elster
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 061842315X
The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words. From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip in diphthong, and no pronoun in pronunciation. The culmination of twenty years of observation and study, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations is more than just a pronunciation guide. Elster discusses past and present usage, alternatives, analogies, and tendencies and offers plenty of advice, none of it objective. Whether you are adamant or ambivalent about the spoken word, Elster arms you with the information you need to decide what is acceptable for you. The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations has now been expanded and revised and features nearly 200 new words, including: al-Qaeda bruschetta commensurate coup de grace curriculum vita exacerbate gigabyte hara-kiri machismo Muslim Niger Pinochet Pulitzer sorbet tinnitus w (as in www-dot) and many, many more. Charles Harrington Elster is the pronunciation editor of Black's Law Dictionary and the author of various books about language, including Verbal Advantage, There's a Word for It, and What in the Word? He has been a guest columnist on language for the Boston Globe and the New York Times Magazine and a commentator on NPR and hundreds of radio shows around the country.
Author : Rod L. Evans Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781101515921
Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now? Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark. Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined-your brain will thank you. *catachresis: strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word; *defenestrate: to throw out a window; *phloem bundles: stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana; *diastema: the gap between teeth in a jaw; *occiput: the back part of the head or skull
Author : Fabio Cleto
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472067222
The complete guide to c& an anthology of the best writing on its history and current theory in cultural studies and lesbian and gay studies
Author : Phillip Crabtree,Donald H. Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : 0253213231
This bibliography of bibliographies lists and describes sources, from basic references to highly specialized materials. Valuable as a classroom text and as a research tool for scholars, librarians, performers, and teachers.
Author : Robert Fortuine
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 9780398083137
This book is a history of the medical vocabulary presented in topical (rather than dictionary) form. While most other books on medical words are arranged as dictionaries, rather than topically, and are much more selective in their presentation, this book entertains a comprehensive and historical approach to the subject. It is written primarily for physicians, biomedical scientists, and medical students, but should also appeal to anyone in the health professions or biological sciences with a 'feel' for medical history and the English language. It will also be useful to some teachers of English or linguistics. The idea of the book developed over at least a decade, and brings together for the author a lifelong interest in words, classical and modern languages, and the history of medicine. The purpose is not only to foster the more precise use of the language of medicine by doctors and biomedical scientists, but also to enhance their enjoyment of the vocabulary they use professionally on a daily basis. Readers will find that the book contains a wealth of knowledge and provides for some very pleasurable reading.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0812458877
Author : Arthur Plotnik
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781936740147
Presents a guide to writing and speaking expressively, offering advice on such topics as high energy verbs, figures of speech, syntax, word patterns, and vocabulary.
Author : Gene Wolfe
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429966245
The Washington Post has called Gene Wolfe "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced." This volume, Castle of Days, joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfe's Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter--and add thirty-nine short essays collected here for the first time, to fashion a rich and engrossing architecture of wonder. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : E. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403980410
In contrast to Euro-centric works on comparative fascism that set Japan apart from Germany and Italy, this book emphasizes parallels between Japan and its Axis Allies. Romantic nationalist ideologies attracted a strong following in all three nations as they emerged as modern states in the late 1800s. In both Germany and Japan these were, from the beginning, strongly racial in nature. Spurred by grievances against the 'status quo' powers, all three took up aggressive policies in the 1930s, producing a short-lived 'fascist era'. Japan's prominent role demands a broader perspective and consideration of 'fascism' as more than a purely European phenomenon.