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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 0007318405
Coinciding with the launch of The Times Spelling Bee, this new title is an invaluable reference source for all those preparing for a competition such as The Times Spelling Bee, as well as for all students aged 10 - 14.
Author : The Scripps National Spelling Bee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798677648090
Does your child dream of winning a school spelling bee, or even competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the Washington, D.C., area? You've found the perfect place to start. Words of the Champions: Your Key to the Bee is the new official study resource from the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Help prepare your child for a 2020 or 2021 classroom, grade-level, school, regional, district or state spelling bee with this list of 4,000 spelling words. The School Spelling Bee Study List, featuring 450 words, is part of the total collection. All words in this guide may be found in our official dictionary, Merriam-Webster Unabridged (http: //unabridged.merriam-webster.com/)
Author : Eley Williams
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281509
“You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An exhilarating, clever, funny debut novel from a prize-winning talent, chronicling the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman who decodes his trail of made-up words a century later. Will enthrall readers of CS Richardson, Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Mountweazel (n.), the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Increasingly uneasy that his colleagues are attempting to corral language and regiment facts, Winceworth feels compelled to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom, and begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries into the dictionary. In the present day, Mallory, a young intern employed by the publisher, must uncover these mountweazels before the work is digitized for modern readers. Through the words and their definitions, she begins to sense their creator’s motivations, hopes and desires. More pressingly, she also has to contend with threatening phone calls from an anonymous caller. Is the change in the definition of marriage (n.) really that controversial? And does the caller truly intend for the Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell”? As these two narratives combine, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of the often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn and undefinable path we call life. An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.
Author : Gail Small,Kendra Yoshinaga
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1578862574
This book documents the real-life story of Kendra Yoshinaga, a young speller who won her first qualifying bee at the young age of nine. Now only twelve years old, she prepared for her third bee and returned to Washington, DC where she tied for 14th in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee Gail Small taught Kendra for first, second, and third grades. Together they share a love of learning and discovery, and the challenges of new ideas. This book describes the spelling bee experiences from a youth's viewpoint. Young readers can delight in the world of spelling so it becomes a natural and exciting part of their lives. "Secrets" of a teacher, coach, and parent reveal proven tactics to foster a confident speller. These distinctive methods will inspire a love for spelling and language in lessons that go far beyond everyday practice. Launch your students on an inspiring quest for knowledge--the words will jump off the pages as the illustrations enliven the story. This book will help them to enjoy the wonders of spelling bees along with the inside moments that only those at the bee have previously experienced. A detailed spelling guide is included for parents, coaches, and teachers of spellers at all ages.
Author : Shalini Shankar
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780465094530
An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for success At first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and constantly tracked on social media. One would think that competitors in the National Spelling Bee -- the most popular brain sport in America -- would be the worst off. Counterintuitively, anthropologist Shalini Shankar argues that, far from being simply overstressed and overscheduled, Gen Z spelling bee competitors are learning crucial twenty-first-century skills from their high-powered lives, displaying a sophisticated understanding of self-promotion, self-direction, and social mobility. Drawing on original ethnographic research, including interviews with participants, judges, and parents, Shankar examines the outsize impact of immigrant parents and explains why Gen Z kids are on a path to success.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : English language
ISBN : 1688932240
Author : Collins Publishers Staff,Collins-Dictionary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : English language
ISBN : 000720213X
A brand new edition of this essential school dictionary, based on extensive teacher research and with numerous extra features to promote success in all subjects in secondary school. * Every spelling shown in full * Clear straightforward defining language * Helpful examples of each word in use * Simple pronunciations for difficult words PLUS * Similar words for vocabulary building * Spelling tips and reminders * Grammar boxes * Interesting word histories
Author : Ammon Shea
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440634482
An obsessive word lover's account of reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary, hailed as "the Super Size Me of lexicography." "I'm reading the OED so you don't have to," says Ammon Shea on his slightly masochistic journey to scale the word lover's Mount Everest: the Oxford English Dictionary. In 26 chapters filled with sharp wit, sheer delight, and a documentarian's keen eye, Shea shares his year inside the OED, delivering a hair-pulling, eye-crossing account of reading every word.
Author : Myla Goldberg
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400032761
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick succession, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality, Saul inducts her into his hallowed study and lavishes upon her the attention previously reserved for Aaron, who in his displacement embarks upon a lone quest for spiritual fulfillment. When Miriam's secret life triggers a familial explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos. Myla Goldberg's keen eye for detail brings Eliza's journey to three-dimensional life. As she rises from classroom obscurity to the blinding lights and outsized expectations of the National Bee, Eliza's small pains and large joys are finely wrought and deeply felt. Not merely a coming-of-age story, Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unraveling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity. The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented new writer.
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192805762
"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781101970263
“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 : P Austin Nuttall
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021231800
This guide provides a comprehensive reference for spelling bees and other spelling contests, featuring over 26,000 words with their correct pronunciations and definitions. The book is based on Nuttall's Standard Pronouncing Dictionary, a widely respected work that has been in print for over a century. The guide is organized alphabetically and includes helpful tips for spelling success. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Francis Wilby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Picture dictionaries, English
ISBN : BL:A0022120083
"The first few pages of the main text are addressed to the teacher, stressing the need for children's early learning to be based on their own experience of the physical objects around them and encouraging them to express that experience in their own language. The wood engraved frontispice depicts a Pestalozzian school-room in which some 20 children are anganged singly or in small groups in a a wide variety of activities. The author was the compiler of the booklet Pestalozzian maxims published 1839 at the Pestalozzian Academy, Finsbury."--Darton, cited below.
Author : James Maguire
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781594862144
A narrative portrait of the America's national spelling bee competition offers insight into its subculture of young wordsmiths, competitive parents, and spectator tension, sharing the stories of five top contestants to offer insight into their ambitions and winning strategies. 40,000 first printing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0789430738
Small in size yet big enough to have the answers to readers' word worries, this miniature reference contains over 35,000 words, with difficult plurals and parts of verbs spelled out in full.
