Download or read book Burgess Unabridged A new dictionary of words you have always needed written by Gelett Burgess and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Burgess Unabridged: A new dictionary of words you have always needed" by Gelett Burgess. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Download or read book Burgess Unabridged written by Gelett Burgess and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.
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"--
Download or read book Worlds of Written Discourse written by Vijay Bhatia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tension between the real world of written discourse and its representation in applied genre-based literature is the main theme of this book. The book addresses this theme from the perspectives of four rather different worlds: the world of reality, the world of private intentions, the world of analysis and the world of applications. Using examples from a range of situations including advertising, business, academia, economics, law, book introductions, reports, media and fundraising, Bhatia uses discourse analysis to move genre theory away from educational contexts and into the real world.
Download or read book Selected Essays About a Bibliography written by Tan Lin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heart Line written by Gelett Burgess and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Heart Line" is set in the pre-1906 San Francisco's fake spiritualism image. Frank Granthope is the main character of the novel who's a palmist, transitioning from fortunetelling to unexperienced counseling as his social standing rises, a pathway that is accelerated when he gets to meet the unavoidable fresh-faced society woman.
Download or read book American Poetry 19th Century 2 written by John Hollander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 1995 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals. An extensive list of works with attention to their chronology and editor notes on the texts within.
Download or read book 7CV Critical Reader written by Danny Snelson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7CV Critical Reader Edit Publication by Mashinka Firunts and Danny Snelson with Chris Cuellar, and event editors Eddie Hopely, and Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Download or read book News Notes of California Libraries written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Download or read book Words that Make a Difference and how to Use Them in a Masterly Way written by Robert Greenman and published by Levenger Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Olympian Nights written by John Kendrick Bangs and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympian Nights by John Kendrick Bangs is a quick-witted novel in which an American tourist visits Olympus. Excerpt: "While traveling through the classic realms of Greece some years ago, sincerely desirous of discovering the lurking place of a certain war which the newspapers of my own country were describing with some vividness, I chanced upon the base of the far-famed Mount Olympus. The night was coming on apace and I was tired, having been led during the day upon a wild-goose chase by my guide, who had assured me that he had definitely located the scene of hostilities between the Greeks and the Turks."
Download or read book Roughing it De Luxe written by Irvin S. Cobb and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roughing it De Luxe is humorous book by Irvin S. Cobb. Cobb was an American writer, humorist, editor and magazine columnist. Excerpt: "Some of us aboard that train did not seem to care deeply for the desert; the cactus possibly disappointed others; and the mesquit failed to give general satisfaction, though at a conservative estimate we passed through nine million miles of it. A few of the delegates from the Eastern seaboard appeared to be irked by the tribal dancing of the Hopi Indians, for there was not a turkey-trotter in the bunch, the Indian settlements of Arizona being the only terpsichorean centers in this country to which the Young Turk movement had not penetrated yet. Some objected to the plains because they were so flat and plainlike, and some to the mountains because of their exceedingly mountainous aspect; but on one point we all agreed—on the uniform excellence of the dining-car service."
Download or read book Skookum Chuck Fables written by R. D. Cumming and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Skookum Chuck Fables" is a collection of, mainly humorous, sketches of both fictional and non-fictional nature. The earlier sketches are fables of life in the British Columbian province of Canada. The stories range in theme from Native American culture in Canada, the Canadian Gold rush and romance. The later sketches are based on actual historical events. Some of the titles include: 'Of the Rolling Stone', 'Of Cultus Johnny', 'Of the Chief who was Bigger than He Looked', 'Of the High Class Eskimo' and 'Of Joan of Arc'.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.
Download or read book Wordwatching written by Alex Horne and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Horne loves words. He loves them so much, in fact, that he's gone on a mental safari and invented some of his own ... all he needs to do now is get them into the dictionary. But, as Alex discovers, gaining entry into the official lexicon takes more than just a gentle word in the ear of the editor. Evidence is required - Alex needs what the dictionary authorities call a 'corpus' of examples, hard data showing that his new words are in widespread and long-term usage by people other than just him and his mum. So a corpus he resolves to create, no matter what obstacles he might meet on the way. This is the ridiculous story of one man's struggle to break into the dictionary. From covert word-dropping on Countdown to wilfully misinforming young schoolchildren, Alex tries it all in his quest for word-based stardom. Does he succeed? Exactly what is a 'mental safari'? And are you already using one of Alex's words without realising it? You won't regret spending your hard-earned honk on this hugely entertaining book.
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