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Author : William Smeaton
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Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Etymological Manual of the English and French Languages written by William Smeaton and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Smeaton
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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Etymological Manual of the English Language written by William Smeaton and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Etymological Manual of the English Language: Comprising the Prefixes, Affixes and Principal Latin, Greek, And Saxon Roots of the English Language by William Smeaton, first published in 1843, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Philip Durkin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191618780
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Etymology written by Philip Durkin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, shows how different types of evidence can shed light on the myriad ways in which words change in form and meaning. He considers how such changes can be part of wider linguistic processes, or be influenced by a complex mixture of social and cultural factors. He illustrates every point with a wide range of fascinating examples. Dr Durkin investigates folk etymology and other changes which words undergo in everyday use. He shows how language families are established, how words in different languages can have a common ancester, and the ways in which the latter can be distinguished from words introduced through language contact. He examines the etymologies of the names of people and places. His focus is on English but he draws many examples from languages such as French, German, and Latin which cast light on the pre-histories of English words. The Oxford Guide to Etymology is reliable, readable, instructive, and enjoyable. Everyone interested in the history of words will value this account of an endlessly fascinating subject.
Author : Robert Claiborne
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 9780385414272
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Roots of English written by Robert Claiborne and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1990 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Claiborne gives readers a short history of the English language to show how most of the words we use today evolved from a single taproot language called Indo-European. This book is a must for all word buffs and language lovers; an intelligent and uniquely accessible examination of our vocabulary by a recognized authority.
Author : Walter William Skeat
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Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language written by Walter William Skeat and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1162 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Educational Divisions of the South Kensington Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Garfield Kennedy
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Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922 written by Arthur Garfield Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The New Englander written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Barnard's American journal of education written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : South Kensington Museum
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Total Pages : 904 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Educational Division of the South Kensington Museum written by South Kensington Museum and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hamilton Baker
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Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Manual of Law French written by John Hamilton Baker and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most English legal texts before 1600, and many before 1700, are written in law French. This book is the first glossary to be produced since 1779 and is intended for students and practitioners concerned with English legal history. A knowledge of French and Latin helps in understanding law French, but even so many words are not easily recognisable, and differences of usage constitute a new dialect. The glossary provides a list of the words most commonly found in English legal texts together with English meanings and (where appropriate) Latin equivalents or etymologies. Introductory chapters provide a brief history of the law French dialect; notes and tables for the conjugation of verbs in law French; common abbreviations and contractions, including the 'black letter' typographical symbols; and a bibliography of specialised works relating to law French.
Author : South Kensington Museum
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Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Textbook and School Apparatus Catalogs written by South Kensington Museum and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound set of catalogs of textbooks and educational apparatus published in London, England.
Author : Michael West
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821413244
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Transcendental Wordplay written by Michael West and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay. Shaped by this ferment, our major romantic authors shared the sensibility that Friedrich Schlegel linked to punning and christened "romantic irony." Notable punsters or etymologists all, they gleefully set up as sages, creating jocular masterpieces from their zest for oracular wordplay. Their search for a primal language lurking beneath all natural languages provided them with something like a secret language that encodes their meanings. To fathom their essentially comic masterpieces we must decipher it. Interpreting Thoreau as an ironic moralist, satirist, and social critic rather than a nature-loving mystic, Transcendental Wordplay suggests that the major American Romantics shared a surprising conservatism. In this award-winning study, Professor West rescues the pun from critical contempt and allows readers to enjoy it as a serious form of American humor.
Author : Philip Durkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199574995
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Borrowed Words written by Philip Durkin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins and reasons for adoption. It covers the effects of contact with languages ranging from Latin and French to Yiddish, Chinese, and Maori, from Saxon times to the present. It will appeal to everyone interested in the history of English.
Author : Gaston Dorren
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802190944
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Lingo written by Gaston Dorren and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal). Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.” “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” (Publishers Weekly), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
Author : Victoria and Albert museum
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Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the educational division of the South Kensington museum written by Victoria and Albert museum and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mercantile Library Association of Brooklyn
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Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: D-M written by Mercantile Library Association of Brooklyn and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
