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Author : Fred Sedgwick
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847062741
An invaluable guide to the fascinating origins of everyday words crafted into pithy annecdotes and facts.
Author : Jeff Zwiers
Publisher : Reycraft Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1478874058
Words are everywhere. But do you know where your favorite words come from? Maybe they plop to the ground from high up in the sky! Or maybe workers piece them together in big factories. Or maybe they come from a one-of-a-kind word-maker . . . but who could that be? Vivid letter-filled illustrations explore imaginative ways words are made as this book shares the secret to creating new words.
Author : Mark Forsyth
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781848313194
'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' Nick Duerden, Independent. 'Particularly good ... Forsyth takes words and draws us into their, and our, murky history.' William Leith, Evening Standard. The Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language. What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? Mark Forsyth's riotous celebration of the idiosyncratic and sometimes absurd connections between words is a classic of its kind: a mine of fascinating information and a must-read for word-lovers everywhere. 'Highly recommended' Spectator.
Author : Fred Sedgwick
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441123374
Did you know that 'aardvark' comes from the South African for 'earth pig'? Or that 'assassin' actually comes from the Arabic for 'smoker of hashish'? This book explains why 'bungalow' comes from Hindi and what exactly 'hello' is short for. It is an invaluable guide to the fascinating origins of everyday words. There are literally tens of thousands of English words with entertaining and engaging stories behind them. Tackling the topic in an anecdotal and yet thorough manner, Fred Sedgwick's pithy, interesting, upbeat and approachable Where Words Come From is the etymological dictionary for everyone, a book to inspire wonder, debate and laughter.
Author : Patrick Skipworth
Publisher : What on Earth Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1912920182
A stunning nonfiction picture book about the global diversity hidden in the English language
Author : John A. Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0195218892
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 : Edward Horowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : IND:39000002998800
Introduces more than 100 word roots and presents words stemming from each root.
Author : Anne-Katrin Wilking
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640986583
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Rostock, language: English, abstract: ...The study of language has become a subject of interest for many years. English for instance, has without a doubt become the global language. Whenever we turn on the news to find out what is happening from four corner of the world, local people are being interviewed and telling us about it in English. To be more specific, English is adopted as an internal lingua franca and second language for most Europeans (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Dutch, and France) although English is not treated as an official language in these countries. While in most Asian countries, having English is always associated with having a prestigious job and career. However, people do not realize that English has adopted enormous number of words from various countries in the world since the imperialism and trade kicked off. ... This essay will respectively discuss the various ways that word-formation processes come into a language, adapted from Yule (1996, p.63-70) namely; coinage, borrowing, compounding, blending, clipping, backformation, conversion, acronyms, derivation, prefixes and suffixes, infixes and multiple processes. Furthermore, this essay will also discuss the implications of word formation for a language learning and teaching process....
Author : Doreen Scott-Dunne
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551382777
Shows teachers how to nurture writers and build student confidence in their ability to writ and to spell well. It argues that children learn to spell by investigating how words work and recognizing the unique structure and patterns of words.--back cover.
Author : Reader's Digest Association, Limited
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 027644244X
Reveals the secrets, scandals and surprises behind the words used every day. This book includes the stories and the personalities that have helped shape the English language from William Shakespeare and Lord Byron, to Rudyard Kipling and Salmon Rushdie.
Author : John Camden Hotten
Publisher : London : Chatto and Windus
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004988478
Author : Sir Henry Yule,Arthur Coke Burnell
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : English language
ISBN : UCBK:C060088545
Author : Kate Woodford,Guy Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521824230
The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Environmental ethics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090118419
"This book presents the environmental philosophies of the Haudenosaunee, as told by the members of the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force. ... Many of the authors have included within their chapter practical examples of how they are using these philosophies to guide them in todays world. This timely book offers a different way to look at our relationship with the natural world, presenting an Indigenous and culturally-based approach to environmental problems."--Back cover
Author : Daniel B. Schwartz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674737532
Few words are as ideologically charged as “ghetto,” a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters, dense immigrant enclaves, Nazi holding pens, and black neighborhoods in the United States. Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with struggle and argument over the slippery meaning of a word.