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  • Glossaries Of Americanisms

    Vol II

    by Daniel R Davis ...
    American lexicography has a distinguished and familiar tradition. Elwyn (1859) is intended as a corrective response to the excessive identification of Americanisms, but in fact represents what one might term the ‘traditionalist’ position. Fallows (1883) is significant as a treatment of Americanisms and Briticisms for a general audience. Norton (1890) is a specific application to American political ... Read more

    $500.99 USD

  • The Handbook of World Englishes

    Edited by Cecil L. Nelson, Zoya G. Proshina, Daniel R. Davis ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of articles on the cross-cultural and transnational linguistic convergence and change of the English language. Now in its second edition, this Handbook brings together multiple theoretical, contextual, and ideological perspectives, and offers new interpretations of the changing identities of world Englishes (WE) speakers and examines the current ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

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    by Ambrose Bierce ...
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  • Telling True Stories

    A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

    Edited by Mark Kramer, Wendy Call ...
    Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bad English

    A History of Linguistic Aggravation

    by Ammon Shea ...
    The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language “mistakes” and how they came to be accepted as correct—or not.English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas

    Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them

    by Judy Parkinson ...
    Series Book 5 - I Used to Know That
    How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? What do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? And who is the face that launched a thousand ships? Did you know that 'the rule of thumb' refers to the use of the thumb to make measurements, as the first joint of the average adult thumb measures one inch?Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • A Secret Vice

    Tolkien on Invented Languages

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Teddy Bears, Tupperware and Sweet Fanny Adams

    How the names became the words

    by Andrew Sholl ...
    What's in a name? From Achilles to zeppelin, the words we use in everyday language invoke a cast of historical characters, from figures of ancient legend to modern-day sports stars. But have you ever stopped to wonder how on earth the names became the words we use so often?How, for example, did Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi give his name to something so sweet as a biscuit? Who was ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins

    Over 500 Strange Stories of the World’s Oddest Words and Phrases

    by Paul McFedries ...
    Get ready to chew the fat.This engaging, humorous new book explains the not-so-common origins of such commonly used phrases as “apple-pie order,” “chew the fat,” and “hat trick.” Presented in a fun, easy-to-read style, it provides entertaining insight on metaphorical phrases, weird words, and strange expressions and takes readers on a journey through the bizarre and eccentric origins that make up ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

    Words We Pinched From Other Languages

    by Chloe Rhodes ...
    Series Book 12 - I Used to Know That
    English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist - we use these foreign words every day without thinking of their origins, but what do they actually mean? And just how and why did we English speakers absorb such exotic imports? Each phrase has a fascinating history; colonialism, ... Read more

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  • Lost English

    Words And Phrases That Have Vanished From Our Language

    by Chris Roberts ...
    In the last thirty years or so a large number of once commonplace words, phrases and expressions have disappeared without trace from common usage. And with them, too, have gone a number of goods, services and everyday objects that were once an important part of our everyday lives. Where did they go and why?Lost English takes a look at how our language has changed and how the pace of modern life, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of English

    Edited by Lynda Mugglestone ...
    Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range of documentary evidence that includes letters, diaries, and private records, fifteen scholars trace the history of English from its ancient Indo ... Read more

    $10.49 USD