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Book Synopsis The Accidental Dictionary by : Paul Anthony Jones
Download or read book The Accidental Dictionary written by Paul Anthony Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with hidden histories and tantalising twists, The Accidental Dictionary tells the extraordinary stories behind ordinary words. Our everyday language is full of surprises; its origins are stranger than you might think. Any word might be knocked and buffeted, subjected to twists and turns, expansions and contractions, happy and unhappy accidents. There are intriguing tales behind even the most familiar terms, and they can say as much about the present as they do the past. Busking, for instance, originally meant piracy. Grin meant to snarl. A bimbo was a man, nice meant ignorant, glamour was magic and a cupboard was a table... Focusing on 100 surprising threads in the evolution of English, The Accidental Dictionary reveals the etymological origins and quirky developments that have led to the meanings we take for granted today. It is a weird and wonderful journey into words. "A real delight ... hidden gems nestle on every page" -- JaffaReadsToo "The Accidental Dictionary is certainly worth adding [to a bookshelf]... I knew very few of these, which is a good thing, and now I know more, which is a better one" -- Marcus Berkmann, Spectator Christmas books 2016
Book Synopsis The Accidental Dictionary by : Paul Anthony Jones
Download or read book The Accidental Dictionary written by Paul Anthony Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our everyday language is full of surprises; its origins are stranger than you might think. Any word might be knocked and buffeted, subjected to twists and turns, expansions and contractions, happy and unhappy accidents. There are intriguing tales behind even the most familiar terms, and they can say as much about the present as they do the past.Busking, for instance, originally meant piracy. Grin meant to snarl. A bimbo was a man; nice meant ignorant; glamor was magic; and a cupboard was a table. Buxom used to mean obedient; a cloud was a rock; raunchy originally meant dirty.Focusing on one hundred surprising threads in the evolution of English, The Accidental Dictionary reveals the etymological origins and quirky developments that have led to the meanings we take for granted today. It is a weird and wonderful journey into words.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopædic Dictionary by : Robert Hunter
Download or read book The Encyclopædic Dictionary written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 2206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary by :
Download or read book The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New American Encyclopedic Dictionary by : Robert Hunter
Download or read book The New American Encyclopedic Dictionary written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virilio Dictionary by : John Armitage
Download or read book Virilio Dictionary written by John Armitage and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Paul Virilio, offering you clear and contemporary direction through the work of Virilio, the French critic of art and technology.
Book Synopsis The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities by : Paul Anthony Jones
Download or read book The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities written by Paul Anthony Jones and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities and you’ll find both a word and a day to remember, every day of the year. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable event—and an equally curious or notable word—are explored. On the day on which flirting was banned in New York City, for instance, you’ll discover why to “sheep’s-eye” someone once meant to look at them amorously. On the day on which a disillusioned San Franciscan declared himself Emperor of the United States, you’ll find the word “mamamouchi,” a term for people who consider themselves more important than they truly are. And on the day on which George Frideric Handel completed his 259-page Messiah after twenty-four days of frenzied work, you’ll see why a French loanword, literally meaning “a small wooden barrow,” is used to refer to an intense period of work undertaken to meet a deadline. The English language is vast enough to supply us with a word for every occasion—and this linguistic “wunderkammer” is here to prove precisely that. So whatever date this book has found its way into your hands, there’s an entire year’s worth of linguistic curiosities waiting to be found.
Book Synopsis The International Encyclopaedic Dictionary ... by :
Download or read book The International Encyclopaedic Dictionary ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Ar Lakshmanan, John Jane Smith Wharton Publisher :Universal Law Publishing ISBN 13 :9788175347830 Total Pages :1180 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (478 download)
Book Synopsis Wharton's concise dictionary by : Ar Lakshmanan, John Jane Smith Wharton
Download or read book Wharton's concise dictionary written by Ar Lakshmanan, John Jane Smith Wharton and published by Universal Law Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan ... with ... Engravings: Miscellaneous and lexicographical by :
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; Or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge, on an Original Plan ... with ... Engravings: Miscellaneous and lexicographical written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Imperial Encyclopaedic Dictionary by : Robert Hunter
Download or read book The Imperial Encyclopaedic Dictionary written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Devil’s Dictionary by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Devil’s Dictionary written by Ambrose Bierce and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-03-16T22:46:04Z with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp. There were no publications of the complete glossary in the 1800s. Not until 1906 did a portion of Bierce’s collection get published by Doubleday, under the name The Cynic’s Word Book—the publisher not wanting to use the word “Devil” in the title, to the great disappointment of the author. The 1906 word book only went from A to L, however, and the remainder was never released under the compromised title. In 1911 the Devil’s Dictionary as we know it was published in complete form as part of Bierce’s collected works (volume 7 of 12), including the remainder of the definitions from M to Z. It has been republished a number of times, including more recent efforts where older definitions from his columns that never made it into the original book were included. Due to the complex nature of copyright, some of those found definitions have unclear public domain status and were not included. This edition of the book includes, however, a set of definitions attributed to his one-and-only “Demon’s Dictionary” column, including Bierce’s classic definition of A: “the first letter in every properly constructed alphabet.” Bierce enjoyed “quoting” his pseudonyms in his work. Most of the poetry, dramatic scenes and stories in this book attributed to others were self-authored and do not exist outside of this work. This includes the prolific Father Gassalasca Jape, whom he thanks in the preface—“jape” of course having the definition: “a practical joke.” This book is a product of its time and must be approached as such. Many of the definitions hold up well today, but some might be considered less palatable by modern readers. Regardless, the book’s humorous style is a valuable snapshot of American culture from past centuries. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Book Synopsis Disney's My Very First Dictionary by : Vincent Jefferds
Download or read book Disney's My Very First Dictionary written by Vincent Jefferds and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treat for young children just learning the alphabet as well as for older children learning to read, "The Amazing ABC Book" is a colorful delight. Bright letters and fun pictures illustrate each letter of the alphabet, from A for Accordion to Z for Zebra. And every word is offered in three languages: English, French, and German. Full color.
Book Synopsis Universal Dictionary of the English Language by :
Download or read book Universal Dictionary of the English Language written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of Ain't by : David Skinner
Download or read book The Story of Ain't written by David Skinner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edition, the dictionary that provoked America’s greatest language controversy. In those days, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster’s Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America’s newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam’s long held authoritarian principles to create a reference work that had “no traffic with…artificial notions of correctness or authority. It must be descriptive not prescriptive.” Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by “notions of correctness” set by the learned few. Dwight MacDonald, a formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster’s Third’s chief nemesis when in the pages of the New Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization.. The Story of Ain’t describes a great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, when the division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred, when the humanities and its figureheads were shunted aside by advances in scientific thinking. All the while, Skinner treats the reader to the chippy banter of the controversy’s key players. A dictionary will never again seem as important as it did in 1961.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of the English Language by : Johnson
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
