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The Word Detective

Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096522
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Word Detective written by John Simpson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions -- and a great many more -- can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief editor of the OED, John Simpson. Simpson spent almost four decades of his life immersed in the intricacies of our language, and guides us through its history with charmingly laconic wit. In The Word Detective, an intensely personal memoir and a joyful celebration of English, he weaves a story of how words come into being (and sometimes disappear), how culture shapes the language we use, and how technology has transformed not only the way we speak and write but also how words are made. Throughout, he enlivens his narrative with lively excavations and investigations of individual words -- from deadline to online and back to 101 (yes, it's a word) -- all the while reminding us that the seemingly mundane words (can you name the four different meanings of ma?) are often the most interesting ones. But Simpson also reminds us of the limitations of language: spending his days in the OED's house of words, his family at home is forced to confront the challenges of wordlessness. A brilliant and deeply humane expedition through the world of words, The Word Detective will delight and inspire any lover of language.

The Word Detective

Author : Evan Morris
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Word Detective written by Evan Morris and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Word Detective

Author : Heather Amery
Publisher : Usborne Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780746003985
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Word Detective written by Heather Amery and published by Usborne Pub Limited. This book was released on 1982 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps children understand the meaning of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and pronouns by using these parts of speech in stories.

Word Detective Grade 2

Author : Ann Richmond Fisher
Publisher : Rockridge Press
ISBN 13 : 9781641529600
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Word Detective Grade 2 written by Ann Richmond Fisher and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun spelling mystery for second grade sleuths Kids love learning through amusing games and activities--and what's more fun than learning to spell by solving a mystery? As they weave their way through Word Detective, they'll learn to spell 200 words through 130 engaging puzzles. When they complete the spelling (grade 2) book, they'll be able to solve "The Case of the Hidden Gold." Each chapter in this spelling (grade 2) book will take them through different themes like friends, family, and animals. Creative puzzles will help them practice the words, and they'll use some of them in their own sentences. This spelling (grade 2) book includes: This is going to be F-U-N!--They'll encounter plenty of spelling (grade 2) exercises including Letter Slide, Merry-Go-Round, and Crack the Code. Whodunit--The answers to the puzzles reveal secret letters that, when put together, solve the case. Words they'll use--They'll learn words for colors, emotions, and other topics from 10 chapters that will help them describe the world around them. Word Detective is everything a spelling (grade 2) book should be and more! Learning new words has never been this much fun.

Shona, Word Detective

Author : John Agard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781127865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Shona, Word Detective written by John Agard and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and charming tale of diversity, language, and the shared cultures that make-up modern life. Featuring the same wonderful characters from 2014's All Sorts to Make a World and 2016's Going Batty. Shona has always loved words. She even has her very own strange word thesaurus! When her and her classmates learn that some languages are dying out, Miss Bates tasks them with becoming top-class word detectives, proving to themselves and their families that there are many beautiful languages still thriving, even within their own classroom. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 7+

Word Detective, Grade 3: 130 Games and Puzzles to Improve Spelling

Author : Ann Richmond Fisher
Publisher : Rockridge Press
ISBN 13 : 9781646110308
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Word Detective, Grade 3: 130 Games and Puzzles to Improve Spelling by : Ann Richmond Fisher

Download or read book Word Detective, Grade 3: 130 Games and Puzzles to Improve Spelling written by Ann Richmond Fisher and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun new way to learn--can you figure out this third-grade spelling mystery? Here's an easy mystery to solve: How do you make learning to spell fun? By becoming a Word Detective, of course! Teach your third-grader important spelling words as they help Franklin the dog detective solve "The Case of the Missing Mascot." Students will be excited to complete 130 grade-appropriate spelling games and puzzles that provide them with the tools they need to crack the case. Each chapter focuses on a different topic--from animals to synonyms--and there's a final chapter to review everything they've learned! Word Detective, Grade 3 includes: Spelling for super sleuths--Kids will be able to solve the mystery by finishing the spelling puzzles and uncovering all the clues inside. Fun-to-solve puzzles--Keep students engaged the whole way through with everything from crosswords to word jumbles to fill-in-the-blanks. A huge variety of vocabulary--The book includes 200 spelling words--all organized by topic--that cover sports, science, cities, space, and so much more. Put the mystery of the most fun way to teach spelling to rest--the answer is right here!

The Word is Murder

Author : Anthony Horowitz
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443455490
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Word is Murder written by Anthony Horowitz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **A Guardian 'Best Thriller of the Year!'** The New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues. A woman crosses a London street. It is just after 11am on a bright spring morning, and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious about the case and looking for new material. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as Hawthorne can be, Horowitz—a seasoned hand when it comes to crime stories—suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery. But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes he’s at the center of a story he can’t control . . . and that his brilliant partner may be hiding dark and mysterious secrets of his own. A masterful and tricky mystery which plays games at many levels, The Word Is Murder is Anthony Horowitz at his very best.

Looking for Clues with a Detective

Author : Joan Stoltman
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1538212358
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Clues with a Detective written by Joan Stoltman and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic detective character is an easily recognizable part of storytelling in so many books, television programs, and movies today. Now, young readers get a chance to learn how detective work is done from the inside. By explaining field terminology and investigative techniques in clear, engaging language, readers will get a compelling overview of the world of detective work. Further inspiration to solve a mystery comes from fun, stimulating activities throughout the book, including a larger project at the end. This volume is sure to be in heavy demand in any collection.

Dotty Detective (Dotty Detective, Book 1)

Author : Clara Vulliamy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000813247X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Book Synopsis Dotty Detective (Dotty Detective, Book 1) by : Clara Vulliamy

Download or read book Dotty Detective (Dotty Detective, Book 1) written by Clara Vulliamy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Dorothy Constance Mae Louise, or Dot as she prefers to be called!

First Class Murder

Author : Robin Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481422200
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book First Class Murder written by Robin Stevens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murdered heiress, a missing necklace, and a train full of shifty, unusual, and suspicious characters leaves Daisy and Hazel with a new mystery to solve in this third novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series. Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are taking a vacation across Europe on world-famous passenger train, the Orient Express—and it’s clear that each of their fellow first-class travelers has something to hide. Even more intriguing: There’s rumor of a spy in their midst. Then, during dinner, a bloodcurdling scream comes from inside one of the cabins. When the door is broken down, a passenger is found murdered—her stunning ruby necklace gone. But the killer has vanished, as if into thin air. The Wells & Wong Detective Society is ready to crack the case—but this time, they’ve got competition.

Word by Word

Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110197026X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Word by Word written by Kory Stamper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.

The Detective Business

Author : Michèle Dufresne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932570458
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Detective Business written by Michèle Dufresne and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Georgie Giraffe decides to become a detective, his family and friends encourage him and bring him cases.

The Data Detective

Author : Tim Harford
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593084675
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Data Detective written by Tim Harford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics—we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us.” If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly—understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray—statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter. As “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful.

Caught in the Web of Words

Author : Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300089196
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Caught in the Web of Words written by Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. "It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth." --Anthony Burgess "A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." --Times (London) "A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself--grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." --Time "In her vivid biography, Murray's granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED's long and difficult birth." --Times Literary Supplement "A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked." --Sunday Times (London)

The Wordhord

Author : Hana Videen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123275X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Wordhord written by Hana Videen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a glorious trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friendship, and where you might grow up to be a laughter-smith. The Wordhord takes readers on a journey through Old English words and customs related to practical daily activities (eating, drinking, learning, working); relationships and entertainment; health and the body, mind, and soul; the natural world (animals, plants, and weather); locations and travel (the source of some of the most evocative words in Old English); mortality, religion, and fate; and the imagination and storytelling. Each chapter ends with its own “wordhord”—a list of its Old English terms, with definitions and pronunciations. Entertaining and enlightening, The Wordhord reveals the magical roots of the language you’re reading right now: you’ll never look at—or speak—English in the same way again.

The word detective in French

Author : Heather Amery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The word detective in French written by Heather Amery and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps children understand the meaning of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and pronouns in French by using these parts of speech in stories.

Words on the Move

Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627794735
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Words on the Move written by John McWhorter and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it Language is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively” rather than “by the letter,” or the way young people use LOL and like, or business jargon like What’s the ask? -- it often seems as if the language is deteriorating before our eyes. But the truth is different and a lot less scary, as John McWhorter shows in this delightful and eye-opening exploration of how English has always been in motion and continues to evolve today. Drawing examples from everyday life and employing a generous helping of humor, he shows that these shifts are a natural process common to all languages, and that we should embrace and appreciate these changes, not condemn them. Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day. Did you know that silly once meant “blessed”? Or that ought was the original past tense of owe? Or that the suffix -ly in adverbs is actually a remnant of the word like? And have you ever wondered why some people from New Orleans sound as if they come from Brooklyn? McWhorter encourages us to marvel at the dynamism and resilience of the English language, and his book offers a lively journey through which we discover that words are ever on the move and our lives are all the richer for it.