A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries
| Author | : John Crawfurd |
| Publisher | : London : Bradbury & Evans |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 1856 |
| Genre | : Asia, Southeastern |
| ISBN | : |
A Descriptive Dictionary
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Fixing English
| Author | : Anne Curzan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2014-05-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107020751 |
Anne Curzan presents a pioneering new definition of prescriptivism as a linguistic phenomenon.
Roget's Descriptive Word Finder
| Author | : Barbara Kipfer |
| Publisher | : Writer's Digest Books |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2003-05-24 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9781582971704 |
Whether they're working on a full-length novel or short magazine article, writers can make their work fresher and more evocative with this thesaurus. It's the essential guide for choosing accurate, specific words--the key to any piece of good writing.
A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya
| Author | : Nicholas Belfield Dennys |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 1894 |
| Genre | : Ethnology |
| ISBN | : |
The Meaning of Everything
| Author | : Simon Winchester |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780192805768 |
"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Oxford English Dictionary
| Author | : John A. Simpson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2002-04-18 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9780195218893 |
The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words, making it an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new upgrade version of The Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work for the English language. The text of this version has been augmented with the inclusion of the Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series (Volumes 1-3), published in 1993 and 1997, the Bibliography to the Second Edition, and other ancillary material. System requirements: PC with minimum 200 MHz Pentium-class processor; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended); 16-speed CD-ROM drive (32-speed recommended); Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 200, or XP (Local administrator rights are required to install and open the OED for the first time on a PC running Windows NT 4 and to install and run the OED on Windows 2000 and XP); 1.1 GB hard disk space to run the OED from the CD-ROM and 1.7 GB to install the CD-ROM to the hard disk: SVGA monitor: 800 x 600 pixels: 16-bit (64k, high color) setting recommended. Please note: for the upgrade, installation requires the use of the OED CD-ROM v2.0.
An American Dictionary of the English Language
| Author | : Noah Webster |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1122 |
| Release | : 1841 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : |
Honesty in the Use of Words
| Author | : Martin Naparsteck |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 73 |
| Release | : 2005-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1599266660 |
What makes great writing great writing is not spelling or grammar or syntax, but honesty. Not the careless honesty of our emotions, but the intellectual honesty that results from careful thoughts combined with a firm insistence that we write only true things. The honest writer always seeks to avoid deception, always believes writing the truth is more important than proving a point. Honesty in the Use of Words by Martin Naparsteck adds a new dimension to such classic writing advice as William Strunk and E.B. White's The Elements of Style and George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language."
The Describer's Dictionary
| Author | : David Grambs |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1995-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780393312652 |
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.
A Dictionary of Language
| Author | : David Crystal |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2001-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780226122038 |
No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's Dictionary of Language includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of terms used in linguistics, language teaching, and speech pathology. If you are wondering how many people speak Macedonian, Malay, or Makua, or if you're curious about various theories of the origins of language, or if you were always unsure of the difference between structuralism, semiotics, and sociolinguistics, this superbly authoritative dictionary will answer all of your questions and hundred of others.
