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Author : Dave Dowling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435266728
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (667 download)
Download or read book The Wrong Word Dictionary written by Dave Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines and explains the differences and proper usage of commonly confused words.
Author : D. Dowling
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417733729
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Wrong Word Dictionary written by D. Dowling and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-08-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines and explains the differences and proper usage of commonly confused words.
Author : D. Dowling
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417733729
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Wrong Word Dictionary written by D. Dowling and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-08-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines and explains the differences and proper usage of commonly confused words.
Author : Mark Davidson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393061192
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Right, Wrong, and Risky written by Mark Davidson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides straightforward information about American-English word usages, spelling, grammar, and punctuation, in an up-to-date guide that provides etymologies for common terms and phrases, word lore, and discussions of why certain rules are disputed by usage authorities. 15,000 first printing.
Author : L. G. Alexander
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582218604
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Right Word Wrong Word written by L. G. Alexander and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Hartwell Fiske
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451651317
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English written by Robert Hartwell Fiske and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive disctionary of common misusages illustrates the right way and the wrong way to use language and explores why dictionaries do not always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word.
Author : Pip Williams
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1984820737
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of Lost Words written by Pip Williams and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD
Author : Dave Dowling
Publisher : Write on Course, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780692204788
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of Worthless Words written by Dave Dowling and published by Write on Course, LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Worthless Words recognizes that concise writing is paramount. This quick reference enables writers to conquer verbiage, delete pointless words and phrases, and elevate e-mails, essays, memoranda, personal letters, press releases, and speeches to a new level of clarity. The many examples of delete-worthy words will enable writers to avoid them in advance and prevent their prose from becoming clumsy and unclear.
Author : Ross Horsley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062065688
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book My First Dictionary written by Ross Horsley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello, boys and girls, and welcome to the wonderful world of words! You've learned the basics—from apple to zebra—but what about all those mysterious new terms you've heard the grown-ups whispering when you were supposed to be tucked up snugly in bed? What makes Mommy so bitter? Where does Daddy conceal the door to his secret S&M dungeon? And why is everyone laughing about Grandma's latest delusion? My First Dictionary answers these questions, and includes many other useful definitions, such as: A burden is a source of worry or stress. Old people are usually burdens. Father is nostalgic. He is remembering the happier times before you were born. A puppy is a young dog. Connie gets a puppy every time she agrees not to tell. Daddy calls them hush puppies. A zigzag is a jagged line. We can tell that Mother has been drinking when she drives in a zigzag pattern. Carry a copy of My First Dictionary in your schoolbag and you'll never be at a loss for words again!
Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110197026X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
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.
Author : Paul Wasserman
Publisher : Capital Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933102078
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Weasel Words written by Paul Wasserman and published by Capital Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumventions, obfuscations, and misleading terms used by government, businesses, and the media.
Author : Laurence Urdang
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New York Times Everyday Reader's Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, and Mispronounced Words written by Laurence Urdang and published by Crown. This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Ruhalter
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402264674
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Kid Dictionary written by Eric Ruhalter and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wishjack: (WISH—jak) v: To blow out the candles on another child's birthday cake. Been a kid? Have a kid? Know a kid? Been left utterly speechless by the wit, wisdom, grossness, and hilarity that accompanies children wherever they go? The Kid Dictionary has the ingenious and hilarious words you need to describe the indescribable: life with kids. Humorous, insightful, and unique, it's perfect for anyone with kids even remotely in their life — from expectant parents to grandparents to aunts and uncles. Finally, the pitch-perfect "why didn't I think of that?" words you've always needed! Brofitti: (broh-FEE-tee) v: The act of scribbling with permanent marker on the face of a younger sibling. Clandesdine: (klan-DES-dyne) v: To hide from one's child while eating a cookie so he doesn't ask for one too.
Author : Tony Geiss
Publisher : Random House Reference
ISBN 13 : 9780679764335
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Bad Speller's Dictionary written by Tony Geiss and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vest pocket
Author : Ross Petras
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 0399578080
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book You're Saying It Wrong written by Ross Petras and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and histories of use and misuse. With wit and good humor, this handy little book not only saves us from sticky linguistic situations but also provides fascinating cocktail-party-ready anecdotes. Entries reveal how to pronounce boatswain like an old salt on the deck of a ship, trompe l'oeil like a bona fide art expert, and haricot vert like a foodie, while arming us with the knowledge of why certain words are correctly pronounced the "slangy" way (they came about before dictionaries), what stalks of grain have to do with pronunciation, and more. With bonus sidebars like "How to Sound like a Seasoned Traveler" and "How to Sound Cultured," readers will be able to speak about foreign foods and places, fashion, philosophy, and literature with authority.
Author : Vere Henry Gratz Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Right Word, Wrong Word written by Vere Henry Gratz Collins and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8074843955
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions) written by Ambrose Bierce and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book is a classic satire in the form of a dictionary on which Bierce worked for decades. It was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book before being retitled in 1911. A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms. It offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language which lampoon cant and political double-talk as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. The definitions provide satirical, witty and often politically pointed representations of the words that is seeks to "define". The Devil's Dictionary has inspired many imitations both in its day and more recently. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce".
