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Dubious Doublets

Author : Stewart Edelstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Dubious Doublets written by Stewart Edelstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take an enchanting tour through the tangled roots of English Quick, what is the common denominator of the following words: onion, twinkle, travel, squad, foist, semester, October, noon, and dicker? By the time you finish reading Dubious Doublets, the answer will be as obvious to you as the relationship between lettuce and galaxy, nostril and thrill, or witch and vegetable! This surprising, enlightening, and entertaining guide uses a delightfully innovative approach to explore the evolution, lineage, and proliferation of words. Beginning with pairs of seemingly unrelated modern English words–dubious doublets–the author traces them back through the millennia to reveal not only their common roots, but also the living thoughts that form the true links between these improbable pairs. You’ll discover, for example, why the words flamenco and flamingo are both related to the complexions of the Dutch, how the biblical son of Isaac is related to a French garment and a Halloween decoration, and what going berserk has to do with playing hopscotch. You'll also uncover the common roots of such seemingly incompatible dyads as bully/friar, muscle/mouse, and everyone’s favorite, feather/hippopotamus. Richly supplemented with cultural anecdotes, literary excerpts, and lively discussions on a broad variety of relevant topics–not to mention a series of whimsical illustrations that offer intriguing clues to word origins–Dubious Doublets is, quite simply, a word buff’s delight.

Dubious Doublets

Author : Edelstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780471465867
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Dubious Doublets written by Edelstein and published by . This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Language

Author : Sol Steinmetz
Publisher : Random House Reference
ISBN 13 : 0307496465
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Language written by Sol Steinmetz and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, business, technology, and other forces of globalization expand and enrich the English language, forming thousands of new words every year. In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps. · A word lover’s guide to etymology, written in a fun, informal, and accessible style · An excellent resource for vocabulary building; a word's root helps readers understand its meaning · Beautifully packaged paperback with French flaps From the Trade Paperback edition.

Sirach and Its Contexts

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004447334
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Sirach and Its Contexts written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sirach and Its Contexts an international cohort of experts analyze this second-century BCE Jewish text in its various literary, historical, philosophical, textual, and political contexts. Humanistic in approach, these essays elicit an ancient tradition’s teachings about human wisdom and flourishing.

Understanding Gravity: The Generation Model Approach

Author : Brian A Robson
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981121493X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Gravity: The Generation Model Approach written by Brian A Robson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, the General Theory of Relativity (GTR) describes the physics of the very large in terms of classical physics, while quantum theory describes the physics of the very small in terms of the Standard Model of particle physics. Unfortunately, the two theories are incompatible and do not describe satisfactorily all the forces between the various particles comprising ordinary matter. At present, one of the deepest problems in theoretical physics is harmonizing the GTR, which describes gravitation, with quantum mechanics, which describes the other three fundamental forces acting on the atomic scale. The main aim of the book is to provide an understanding of gravity in terms of a quantum theory given by the Generation Model of particle physics. The book presents a fully quantum theory of gravity, which describes both the large cosmological scale and the small atomic scale interactions between all particles.

The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language

Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inside a Dog

Author : Dave Guthmann
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557087384
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Inside a Dog written by Dave Guthmann and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside of Dog

Port Out, Starboard Home

Author : Michael Quinion
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141909048
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Port Out, Starboard Home written by Michael Quinion and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for example, are satisfying meals 'square' rather than any other shape? And how did anyone ever come up with the idea that if you're competent at something you can 'cut the mustard'? Michael Quinion here retells many of the more bizarre tales, and explains their real origins where they're known. This is a fascinating treasure-trove of fiction and fact for anyone interested in language.

The Hibbert Journal

Author : Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Hibbert Journal written by Lawrence Pearsall Jacks and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarterly review of religion, theology, and philosophy.

The New Universal English and Italian Dictionary, Etc

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The New Universal English and Italian Dictionary, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Thesaurus of English Word Roots

Author : Horace Gerald Danner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442233265
Total Pages : 1007 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book A Thesaurus of English Word Roots written by Horace Gerald Danner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.

The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophical Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Symbols Versus Neurons?

Author : Joachim Stender
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789051990393
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Symbols Versus Neurons? written by Joachim Stender and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boyer's royal dictionary abridged, English and French and French and English

Author : Abel Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Boyer's royal dictionary abridged, English and French and French and English written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionnaire royal françois-anglois et anglois-françois, en abrégé, par M. A. Boyer. Avec des accents pour faciliter aux étrangers la prononciation de la Langue Anglaise. Douzième édition soigneusement corrigée, & enrichie de nouvelles augmentations

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Author : Abel Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Dictionnaire royal françois-anglois et anglois-françois, en abrégé, par M. A. Boyer. Avec des accents pour faciliter aux étrangers la prononciation de la Langue Anglaise. Douzième édition soigneusement corrigée, & enrichie de nouvelles augmentations written by Abel Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foote-prints on Chemicals, Metals, Alloys and Ores

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Foote-prints on Chemicals, Metals, Alloys and Ores written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-5 include section: Reviews and astracts of technical periodicals. Vols. 6, no. 2-9 include section: References to recent articles in technical journals (title varies slightly)