The Hidden History of Coined Words

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190466766
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hidden History of Coined Words by : Ralph Keyes

Download or read book The Hidden History of Coined Words written by Ralph Keyes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do words get coined? That question is explored in Ralph Keyes's latest book, The Hidden History of Coined Words. Based on meticulous research, Keyes has determined that successful neologisms are as likely to be created by chance as by intention. A remarkable number of new words were coined whimsically, he's discovered, to taunt, even to prank. Knickers resulted from a hoax, big bang from an insult. Wisecracking produced software, crowdsource, and blog. More than a few neologisms weren't even coined intentionally: they resulted from happy accidents such as typos, mistranslations, and misheard words like bigly and buttonhole, or from an unintended coinage such as Isaac Asimov's robotics. Many of the word coiners Keyes writes about come from unlikely quarters. Neologizers (a Thomas Jefferson coinage) include not just learned scholars and literary lions but cartoonists, columnists, children's authors, and children as well. Wimp, Keyes tells us, originated with an early 20th century book series on The Wymps, goop from a series about The Goops, and nerd from a book by Dr. Seuss. Competing claims to have coined terms like gonzo, mojo, and booty call are assessed, as is epic battles fought between new word partisans, and those who think we have enough words already. A concluding chapter offers pointers on how to coin a word of one's own. Written in a reader-friendly manner, The Hidden History of Coined Words will appeal not just to word lovers but history buffs, trivia contesters, and anyone at all who is interested in a well-informed good read"--

A Voyage to Lilliput

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Book Synopsis A Voyage to Lilliput by : Jonathan Swift

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Lost for Words

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ISBN 13 : 9780739465271
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis Lost for Words by : Lynda Mugglestone

Download or read book Lost for Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hidden History of Code-Breaking

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Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781639366958
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Hidden History of Code-Breaking by : Sinclair McKay

Download or read book The Hidden History of Code-Breaking written by Sinclair McKay and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions, and change the faces of nations. There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament, too. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy. In The Hidden History of Code-Breaking, Sinclair McKay explores these uncrackable codes, secret cyphers, and hidden messages from across time to tell a new history of a secret world. From the temples of Ancient Greece to the court of Elizabeth I; from antique manuscripts whose codes might hold prophecies of doom to the modern realm of quantum mechanics, we will see how a few concealed words could help to win wars, spark revolutions, and even change the faces of great nations. Here is the complete guide to the hidden world of code-breaking, with opportunities for you to see if you could have cracked some of the trickiest puzzles and lip-chewing codes ever created.

Word Origins

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Publisher : A&C Black Business Information and Development
ISBN 13 : 9780713674989
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Book Synopsis Word Origins by : John Ayto

Download or read book Word Origins written by John Ayto and published by A&C Black Business Information and Development. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English language: acronyms (nimby), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an A-Z format with detailed cross references, and written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Word Origins is a valuable historical guide to the English language.

To Coin a Phrase

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Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099091806
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (918 download)

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To Coin a Phrase

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ISBN 13 : 9780333316436
Total Pages : 281 pages
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The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins

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Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
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Book Synopsis The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by : Robert Hendrickson

Download or read book The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins written by Robert Hendrickson and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 2008 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most comprehensive single-volume reference of its kind, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Fourth Edition has been completely updated and expanded and now contains definitions and origins of more than 15,000 words and expressions. This encyclopedia features anecdotes and information on the development of a wide range of words, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names, place names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign language expressions, and phrases from literature. The emphasis throughout is on words and expressions whose origins are not adequately explained, or not addressed at all, in standard dictionaries. Approximately 2,500 new entries have been added to this edition, ranging from Aardsma to zounds."--BOOK JACKET.

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

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Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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A Short History of English Words

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis A Short History of English Words by : Bernard Groom

Download or read book A Short History of English Words written by Bernard Groom and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women

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Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Book Synopsis The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women by : Elspeth King

Download or read book The Hidden History of Glasgow's Women written by Elspeth King and published by Mainstream Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at aspects of Glasgow history which have hitherto been ignored or overlooked by most historians - the history of women in the city. Existing histories are the histories of the men who made Glasgow great: the inventors, industrialists, shipbuilders, philosophers and men of medicine. Although every schoolchild knows the legends of St Mungo, no one knows the legend of his mother St Thenew. The strong machismo culture of the west of Scotland has all but obliterated the contribution of women. St Thenew is actually Scotland's first recorded rape victim, battered woman and unmarried mother. From the time of her death in the seventh century until the present day, there is a discernable trail of oppression and violence against women. At the same time there is a history of strong and sustained resistance to persecution, achievement in the face of adversity and moral triumph in the teeth of injustice. This work deals with women, religon and the Reformation, social and political status, the fight for equal rights and the history of the Suffragettes. Because of the nature of the sources, more space is given to women who stood up and stood out - the 16th century "orray woemen" whom the town council could not control, the revolutionary Owenites and those brave women who threw bombs, burned down big houses, and went on hunger strike.

The Virginia Quarterly Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)

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Word Studies in the New Testament

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
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Book Synopsis Word Studies in the New Testament by : Marvin Richardson Vincent

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Twentieth-century Literary Criticism

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Total Pages : 524 pages
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Book Synopsis Twentieth-century Literary Criticism by : Gale Research Company

Download or read book Twentieth-century Literary Criticism written by Gale Research Company and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.

Mason's Coin and Stamp Collectors' Magazine

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Total Pages : 516 pages
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The Codebreakers

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439103550
Total Pages : 1207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis The Codebreakers by : David Kahn

Download or read book The Codebreakers written by David Kahn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 1207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage -- updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret. Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. Once a government monopoly, cryptology today touches everybody. It secures the Internet, keeps e-mail private, maintains the integrity of cash machine transactions, and scrambles TV signals on unpaid-for channels. David Kahn's The Codebreakers takes the measure of what codes and codebreaking have meant in human history in a single comprehensive account, astonishing in its scope and enthralling in its execution. Hailed upon first publication as a book likely to become the definitive work of its kind, The Codebreakers has more than lived up to that prediction: it remains unsurpassed. With a brilliant new chapter that makes use of previously classified documents to bring the book thoroughly up to date, and to explore the myriad ways computer codes and their hackers are changing all of our lives, The Codebreakers is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art.

Techniques of Teaching Vocabulary

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ISBN 13 : 9780514011013
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Techniques of Teaching Vocabulary by : Edgar Dale

Download or read book Techniques of Teaching Vocabulary written by Edgar Dale and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: