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Author : John Ciardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (297 download)
Download or read book A Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language written by John Ciardi and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ciardi
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Second Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language written by John Ciardi and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories, legends, and facts behind the origins of common American expressions.
Author : John Anthony Ciardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (834 download)
Download or read book A brower's dictionary and native's guide to the unknown American language written by John Anthony Ciardi and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ciardi
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Second Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language written by John Ciardi and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories, legends, and facts behind the origins of common American expressions.
Author : John Ciardi
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Good Words to You written by John Ciardi and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the usage and origins of American language expressions.
Author : John Ciardi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)
Download or read book A Browser's Dictionary and Cative's Guide to the Unknown American Language written by John Ciardi and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357760
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The City in Slang written by Irving Lewis Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.
Author : Anatoly Liberman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452913218
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology written by Anatoly Liberman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology "by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one. In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the entries are among the most commonly used words in English, including man, boy, girl, bird, brain, understand, key, ever, " and yet." Others are slang: mooch, nudge, pimp, filch, gawk, " and skedaddle." Many, such as beacon, oat, hemlock, ivy," and toad," have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more recently, for example, slang, kitty-corner, " and Jeep." They are all united by their etymological obscurity. This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the English language. "Anatoly Liberman is one of the leading scholars in the field of English etymology. Undoubtedly his work will be an indispensable tool for the ongoing revision of the etymological component of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary."" --Bernhard Diensberg, OED" consultant, French etymologies Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. He has published many works, including 16 books, most recently Word Origins . . . and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone."
Author : Ralph Keyes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190466766
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
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"--
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800731329
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Compiled by Wolfgang Mieder, a key figure in the field of proverb studies, this compendium features nearly 1,500 proverbs with American origins, spanning the 17th century to present day, including a scholarly introduction exploring the history of proverbs in America, the structure and variants of these proverbs, known authors and sources, and cultural values expressed in these proverbs. Along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship, this dictionary offers a glimpse into the history of American social and cultural attitudes through uniquely American language.
Author : Vince Clemente
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780938626800
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)
Download or read book John Ciardi written by Vince Clemente and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Brohaugh
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 140221927X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Everything You Know About English Is Wrong written by Bill Brohaugh and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I don't know how else to tell you this...everything you know about English is wrong. "If you love language and the unvarnished truth, you'll love Everything You Know About English Is Wrong. You'll have fun because his lively, comedic, skeptical voice will speak to you from the pages of his word-bethumped book." -Richard Lederer, author of Anguished English, Get Thee to a Punnery, and Word Wizard Now that you know, it's time to, well, bite the mother tongue. William Brohaugh, former editor of Writer's Digest, will be your tour guide on this delightful journey through the English language, pointing out all the misconceptions about our wonderful-and wonderfully confusing-native tongue. Tackling words, letters, grammar and rules, no sacred cow remains untipped as Brohaugh reveals such fascinating and irreverent shockers as: - If you figuratively climb the walls, you are agitated/frustrated/crazy. If you literally climb the walls, you are Spiderman. - "Biting the Mother Tongue": English does not come from England. - The word "queue" is the poster child of an English spelling rule so dominant we'll call it a dominatrix rule: "U must follow Q! Slave!" - So much of our vocabulary comes from the classical languages-clearly, Greece, and not Grease, is the word, is the word, is the word. -Emoticons: Unpleasant punctuational predictions "Better plotted than a glossary, more riveting than a thesaurus, more filmable than a Harry Potter index-and that's just Brohaugh's footsnorts... Imean, feetsnotes...umfeetsneets?...good gravy I'mglad I'mjust a cartoonist." -John Caldwell, one of Mad magazine's Usual Gang of Idiots This book guarantees you'll never look at the English language the same way again-if you write, read or speak it, it just ain't possible to live without this tell-all guide. ("Ain't," incidentally, is not a bad word.)
Author : John Ciardi
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753708
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (537 download)
Download or read book The selected letters of John Ciardi written by John Ciardi and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward M. Cifelli
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752169
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)
Download or read book John Ciardi: a Biography (p) written by Edward M. Cifelli and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Ciardi's life, Edward Cifelli has captured all the deep concern, passion, and thoughtfulness that marked Ciardi's long career in American letters. With care and penetrating detail, Cifelli evokes Ciardi's early childhood in Boston, his Italian heritage, his service as a gunner on a B-29 during World War II, and his years teaching at Harvard and Rutgers. Illuminated here are Ciardi's widely read contributions as an editor of Saturday Review and World magazines, as well as his tireless effort to bring an awareness and love of language and poetry to America through radio, television, the lecture circuit, and his twenty-six years on the staff of the famous Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a gathering he directed for seventeen years.
Author : Edwin Wallace McMullen
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773475342
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Names New and Old written by Edwin Wallace McMullen and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays tell the story of geographic, literary, personal and various other types of names. Information on names is offered chronologically from 1391 up to the present time and the 'hip-lit' names used in Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero. There are also technical studies, such as the names of drugs in the world of street-Spanish, and the sound patterns of proper names in the English language.
Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 048683722X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Words from the White House written by Paul Dickson and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases coined or popularized by American presidents. Alphabetical listings feature a definition and (usually) a brief discussion that places them in historical context.
Author : Robert B. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331929055X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book White Coat Tales written by Robert B. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of White Coat Tales presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that shortened the life of Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to many new tales, this revised edition contains 128 illustrations, such as images of Baron von Münchhausen aloft with cannonballs and Vincent van Gogh’s portrait of his doctor showing a clue to the painter’s health. Read about legendary medical innovators, diseases that changed history, illnesses of famous persons, and some epic blunders of physicians and scientists. The author is Robert B. Taylor, MD, Emeritus Professor, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, and Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Taylor is the author and editor of more than 33 medical books. To see Dr. Taylor lecture on the history of medicine, go here: https://youtu.be/Zx4yaUyaPRA
