Download or read book Dictionary of Hard Words written by Robert Morris Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Hard Words written by Robert Morris Pierce and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't let difficult vocabulary words hold you back! This handy dictionary offers clear definitions of some of the trickiest words in the English language. Designed for students, writers, and anyone who wants to improve their vocabulary, this reference book is an essential tool for anyone seeking to expand their knowledge of English. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Dictionary of Lost Words written by Pip Williams and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language written by Cyrus Byington and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Jane Solomon and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.

Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English Classic Reprint written by Henry Watson Fowler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English Again, of the many thousands of old or new scientific and technical terms that have a limited currency some are carried by accident into the main stream of the language and become known temporarily or permanently, vaguely or precisely, to all ordinarily well-informed members of the modern newspaper-reading public. For the purposes of a dictionary that is not to be bulky and yet is to give a fuller treatment than is usual in dictionaries of its size to the undoubtedly current words forming the staple of the language, selection among these intruders is a difficult but very necessary task. The most that can be hoped for is that every one conversant with any special vocabulary may consider us, though sadly deficient on his subject, fairly copious on others the meaning cf many learned words that have been omitted as having no pretence to general currency may easily be gathered by reference first to the stem, which is often the subject of an article, or to another word of which the stem is clearly the same, and secondly to the suffix. In another class of words and senses the test of currency has led us to diverge in the opposite direction from the practice usual in dictionaries of this size if we give fewer scientific and technical terms, we admit colloquial, facetious, slang, and vulgar expressions with freedom, merely attaching a cautionary label when a well established usage of this kind is omitted, it is not because we consider it beneath the dignity of lexicography to record it, but because, not being recorded in the dictionaries from which our word-list is necessarily compiled, it has escaped our notice we have not, however, consulted slang dictionaries nor made any attempt at completeness in this respect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Modern Dictionary of the English Language Classic Reprint written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Modern Dictionary of the English Language About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Word by Word written by Kory Stamper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.

Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English written by Henry Watson Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of Word Origins written by Jordan Almond and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary gives the intriguing origins of hundreds of everyday words and expressions. Useful for reference and fun just for browsing, Dictionary of Word Origins is also a great way to expand vocabulary and enjoy doing it.

Download or read book Walker s Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language Classic Reprint written by John Walker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language After him, Dr. Kenrick contributed a portion of improvement by his Rhetorical Dictionary in which the words are divided into syllables as they are pronounced, and figures placed over the vowels, to indicate the different sounds. But this gentleman has rendered his Dictionary extremely imperfect, by entirely omitting a eat num ber of words of doubtful and difficult pronunciation - those very words or which a Dictionary of this kind would be most consulted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language Classic Reprint written by Walter W. Skeat and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language I do not, in general, give the history Of the use of the word under discussion, unless there is some special point which is necessary to be known for the sake of the etymology. For such history, accompanied by illustrative comments. References, and discussions, I must refer students to the unabridged work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Walker s Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language written by John Walker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language: Abridged for the Use of Schools; To Which Is Annexed, an Abridgment of Walker's Key to the Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names After him, Dr. Kenriclt contributed a (portion of improvement by his Rhetorical Dictionary ih which the words are divide into syllables as they are pronounced, ano figures placed over the vowels, to indicate the di erent sounds. But this gentleman has rendered his' Dictionary extremely imperfect, by entirely omitting a great num ber of words of doubtful and difficult pronunciation - those very words tor which a Dictionary of this kind would be most consulted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Dictionary of the English Language: With the Pronunciation Greatly Simplified, and on an Entirely New Plan; And With the Addition of Several Thousand Words The object of this work is to combine the merits of the most popular Dictionaries, especially those of Johnson and Walker, so as to supersede the necessity now felt of having more than one Dictionary even for the ordinary purposes of the English student; and at the same time, in avoiding their defects and redundancies, to preserve the same dimensions as the ordinary octavo abridgement of Johnson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language written by James Champlin Fernald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language: Designed to Give the Orthography, Pronunciation, and Meaning of About 28, 000 Words and Phrases in the Speech and Literature of the English-Speaking Peoples Old new old an an an an O a aslnmonarch, breakfast, final. Cl 1, y as in pine, eye, ply, d s as in arm, aims, calm, father. On ou, ow as in out, thou, ow g a as in ask, chant, dance, fast. Oi oi, oy as in oil, boy, avoid, joint. G as in at, add, man, random. In a asin few, adduce, duty, mate. A a, a in 0 as in duration. Mulatto a a as in alloy, mm' man. In k n k h asiin future, lectured: n'a'zre. E asin sunset excuse, f c e, e as ncat, scept c In. [9 g as istle, e 3? Ch ch asinchurc chair, matc chip. Q 5 as in moment, a scnce, co onsl. Owz u kw as in yacen, quite, qua ity. Gr er, lr,flras in ever, fern, fir, bur. 411 (t m 88 in he, the; 110004 i 6 e, a as in they, rein, fate, ale, aid. F f 3 infancy, 3 fl? PM 0. 5 a, g asinusage, preface, ultimate. 2 (hard) 5 as in go, n, ame, dog. 1 I, y as in an, a, divide, rm, pity. H as in ab oh. Oog (scotch). F i, s as in machine, meet, as, bier. 80h (german). 1 e as in react, remain, create. PW (wh) pw. 5 in why, when, where. O o as in obe eulogy theory. J J' g o o asin no, g 6 note', blow, over. Ns us as in sing. Longmnaueflnno e 6, a as in not, d, what, comma. N 88 1 ink, bank, auction. E o, a as in nor, abhor, ought, walk. 11 as in hon (frenc -'r 9 0 as in actor, idiom atom. Sh e, h s h as in sip, celll, icity, express. V s s asnse, case, m ne. 3 313133 3: {lg ffilefilfetm', $733: t th t? H as in thin, worth, breath, pith. Ll as in measure, injure, nature. Ii 0 88 1 dune U ii, 6 as in but, tub, under, nation. I. Z, 5 as in zone, is, lives, music. 6 d as in burn, cur, curl, hurt. Zh zh, s asin azure, treasure, ambrosia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Robert H. Hill and published by Wordsworth Edition. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Archie Hobson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Features more than 10,000 entries that focus exclusively on words that, while outside most people's working vocabulary, are often encountered in literature, in technical writings such as computing or medical terminology, and in such diverse subject areas as law, philosophy, and art. Special attention is given to easily confused or closely related words. Usage notes are provided to ensure that readers know how to integrate these words into their vocabularies for more precision and power in speech and writing."--Back cover.