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Author : Frank Graham
Publisher : Butler Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780946928118
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (281 download)
Download or read book The New Geordie Dictionary written by Frank Graham and published by Butler Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Griffiths
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458784843
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of North East Dialect written by Bill Griffiths and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As entertaining as it is informative, this dictionary offers records and explanations of a northern English dialect. The research presents information about words that go back as far as the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings as well as those present in today's vernacular. Ideal for anyone interested in English etymology, this reference is thorough and essential.
Author : Geordie Telfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894864855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Canadianisms written by Geordie Telfer and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one long joke about "Oot and aboot," this book details how those in Canada speak more than just English or French. We have a vocabulary--and a number of dialects--all our own. So, sit on the chesterfield with a box of timbits and read this tongue-in-cheek take on Canada's unofficial language.
Author : Susie Dent
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409061949
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book How to Talk Like a Local written by Susie Dent and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Susie Dent is a national treasure' RICHARD OSMAN 'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' PAM AYRES __________________________________________ Would you be bewildered if someone described you as radgy? Do you know how to recognise a tittamatorter? And would you understand if someone called you a culchie? How to Talk Like a Local gathers together hundreds of words from all over the country and digs down to uncover their origins. From dardledumdue, which means daydreamer in East Anglia, through forkin robbins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, it investigates an astonishingly rich variety of regional expressions, and provides a fascinating insight into the history of the English language. If you're intrigued by colourful words and phrases, if you're interested in how English is really spoken, or if you simply want to find out a bit more about the development of our language, How to Talk Like a Local is irresistible - and enlightening - reading. __________________________________________________ 'Nobody on earth knows more about the English language than Susie Dent and nobody writes about it more entertainingly' GYLES BRANDRETH 'It's an interesting and, at times, hilarious read. One for word-lovers' THE SUN
Author : Bo Beolens
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1907807446
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians written by Bo Beolens and published by Pelagic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New species of animal and plant are being discovered all the time. When this happens, the new species has to be given a scientific, Latin name in addition to any common, vernacular name. In either case the species may be named after a person, often the discoverer but sometimes an individual they wished to honour or perhaps were staying with at the time the discovery was made. Species names related to a person are ‘eponyms’. Many scientific names are allusive, esoteric and even humorous, so an eponym dictionary is a valuable resource for anyone, amateur or professional, who wants to decipher the meaning and glimpse the history of a species name. Sometimes a name refers not to a person but to a fictional character or mythological figure. The Forest Stubfoot Toad Atelopus farci is named after the FARC, a Colombian guerrilla army who found refuge in the toad’s habitat and thereby, it is claimed, protected it. Hoipollo's Bubble-nest Frog Pseudophilautus hoipolloi was named after the Greek for ‘the many’, but someone assumed the reference was to a Dr Hoipollo. Meanwhile, the man who has everything will never refuse an eponym: Sting's Treefrog Dendropsophus stingi is named after the rock musician, in honour of his ‘commitment and efforts to save the rainforest’. Following the success of their Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles, the authors have joined forces to give amphibians a similar treatment. They have tracked down 1,609 honoured individuals and composed for each a brief, pithy biography. In some cases these are a reminder of the courage of scientists whose dedicated research in remote locations exposed them to disease and even violent death. The eponym ensures that their memory will survive, aided by reference works such as this highly readable dictionary. Altogether 2,668 amphibians are listed.
Author : Sid Waddell
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007282001
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Taak of the Toon: How to Speak Geordie written by Sid Waddell and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain an insight into the English language, via one of the UK’s richest dialects: Geordie.
Author : James Milroy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317896963
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Real English written by James Milroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.
Author : Bill Griffiths
Publisher : McNidder & Grace
ISBN 13 : 0857162713
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Whare de yea belang? written by Bill Griffiths and published by McNidder & Grace. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where de yea belang?brings together the distinctive vocabulary of the North East dialect. "Abackabeyont, bait-poke, cracket, drucken, etten, fettle, guissie pigs, lonnin, marra, nyen, plote, queen-cat, reckling, skinch, tew, upcast, vine, willok, yem, zookers!" If you enjoy finding out about dialect words – how and where and when they were used – and where they came from – this is the best guide to help you explore the world of North East dialect. Until the 20th century, dialect was a marker of economic, social and cultural change. We know that the North East maritime connections with the Dutch led to the introduction of many 'new' words. The Scottish influence of the keelmen (fisherman) on the Tyne and their effect on local language was much more radical. Although the Tyneside dialect and identity and this way of speaking is fast waning, the popularity of discovering this language and dialect shows there is still a great interest in the languages and dialect of the past. The late Bill Griffiths (1948–2007)was an extraordinary writer and poet: radical, experimental and scholarly, but also had a great sense of humour. He was a wonderful champion of the North East, its people and heritage. Born in Middlesex, he read history before graduating in 1969. Bill ran his own independent press and published political pamphlets and essays on the arts and poetry. After gaining a PhD in Old English he fled London and settled in Seaham where he embraced the northern way of life. 'He was also a scholar of Old English and dialect who know how to make his work accessible. Private and uncompetitive, he was at least these things: poet, archivist, scholar, translator, prison-rights campaigner, pianist, historian, curator, performer, editor, short-story writer, essayist, teacher, book-maker and lyricist. The Saturday before he died, Bill discharged himself from hospital to host the Dialect Day at the Morden Tower in Newcastle upon Tyne. He died as he lived: cataloguing, awarding Best Dialect prizes, opera on his radio, the poetry paramount.' Obituary, The Independent, 20 September 2007.
Author : J. Beal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230223206
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora written by J. Beal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book develops similar standards for enriching and preserving 'unconventional' data': the fragmentary texts and voices left to us as accidents of history.
Author : Greg Brooks
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783741074
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of the British English Spelling System written by Greg Brooks and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It's a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters ) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables.
Author : Scott Dobson
Publisher : Butler Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780946928019
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Larn Yersel Geordie written by Scott Dobson and published by Butler Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annalisa Bonomo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869384
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn written by Annalisa Bonomo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent multilingual turn involves various different implicit and explicit language policies, urging pressure and resistance with regard to the spread of English and its dominant relationships with other national languages. As such, this book considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. The data presented here show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation, with worldwide Standard English being but one of the many other related varieties which enjoy prestige on a large scale. These varieties may be identified according to different features which make the plural “world Englishes” an umbrella term with blurred edges. New approaches to dialects study have been developed in recent decades, and cartographic mapping has overlapped with the emergence of a new dialectology which deals with the description of language phenomena as complex concepts, where “complexity” provides a challenging framework for investigation and research of languages as dynamic systems made up of variables which mutually influence each other. Thus, dialectometry, dialectology and standardization become interesting tools for measuring linguistic differences, establishing language typologies and endorsing the systemic characteristics which can be formalized. Comprehensive and well-informed, this volume will appeal to anyone interested in the spread of English, from researchers and teachers to students, providing them with a greater understanding of some examples of world Englishes analysed under the light of complexity as a product of global society.
Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Foyle
Publisher : Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Foyle's Philavery written by Christopher Foyle and published by Larousse Kingfisher Chambers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'philavery' was invented to describe this book - a collection of words chosen simply on the grounds of their aesthetic appeal. Some of these words appeal because of their aptness, some for their obscurity, some for their euphony, and some for their quirkiness.
Author : Brendan Loughridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Which Dictionary? written by Brendan Loughridge and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317372514
Total Pages : 15065 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 15065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Author : Delia Chiaro
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441158235
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Translation, Humour and Literature written by Delia Chiaro and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
