The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot write by David Grambs. This book was released on 1997-08-17. The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear. This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an indispensable resource for every lover of language. A selection: egrutten: having a face swollen from weeping numquid: an inquisitive person sardoodledum: drama that is contrived, stagy, or unrealistic mimp: to purse one's lips
Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits
Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits write by Rod L. Evans Ph.D.. This book was released on 2011-06-07. Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now? Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark. Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined-your brain will thank you. *catachresis: strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word; *defenestrate: to throw out a window; *phloem bundles: stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana; *diastema: the gap between teeth in a jaw; *occiput: the back part of the head or skull
The Describer's Dictionary
The Describer's Dictionary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Describer's Dictionary write by David Grambs. This book was released on 1995-08. The Describer's Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dictionary of the observable world features definition-first organization; passages from the writings of James, Updike, and others; and words concerning shapes, textures, colors, terrain, and more.
Garner on Language and Writing
Garner on Language and Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Garner on Language and Writing write by Bryan A. Garner. This book was released on 2009. Garner on Language and Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects. This collection of his essays shows both profound scholarship and sharp wit. The essays cover subjects as wide-ranging as learning to write, style, persuasion, contractual and legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography, writing in law school, writing in law practice, judicial writing, and all the literature relating to these diverse subjects.
Towards a Dialogic Anglistics
Towards a Dialogic Anglistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a Dialogic Anglistics write by Werner Delanoy. This book was released on 2007. Towards a Dialogic Anglistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When one looks at the history of English Studies there has been a noticeable proliferation of research interests since the 1970s. As a result of such development, attempts have been made to create a new basis for communication and cooperation inside Anglistics and across disciplines. Making a case for a Dialogic Anglistics is such an attempt. A Dialogic Anglistics is based on a normative concept of dialogue aiming for egalitarian forms of cooperation both inside, between and across disciplines leading to the redefinition of old and creation of manifold new directions for English Studies. In the nineteen articles presented in this volume dialogic encounters are encouraged both within and between different fields within Anglistics. Furthermore, dialogic links are created with colleagues from other academic disciplines.
