The English dialect dictionary

The English dialect dictionary
Author: Joseph Wright
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 440
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 5518930976

The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years. Volume 6. Supplement, A-Y.

Scottish Wildlife

Scottish Wildlife
Author: Chris Robinson
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2008-03-13
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1845028244

Scotland is a country brimful of beasties, and for every bird, animal and insect that you see as you travel through towns, farmland, mountains, glens, rivers, lochs and sea, the Scots language will provide a Scots word. In Scottish Wildlife, Chris Robinson of Scottish Language Dictionaries will introduce you to Big Beasties, Wee Beasties, Creepy-Crawlies and our Feathered Friends and will inform and entertain as she explains how they got their names, where to find them and how to recognise them. So welcome to the world of the coos, yowes, horney gollachs, blethering Tams and many, many more.

Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899

Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1899
Author: Catherine W. Reilly
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Contains 4000 entries listing the published works of late Victorian poets (1880-1899). Arranged alphabetically by author, the work includes biographical information, bibliographical details of published works and cross-references to other names. It lists many minor poets unrecorded elsewhere.

How Not to Say what You Mean

How Not to Say what You Mean
Author: R. W. Holder
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

We often use euphemisms when dealing with taboo or sensitive subjects--we speak of "full-figured" women, we "fudge" on our income tax, we get "cold feet" before our wedding. Here, author Holder celebrates this human tendency to use mild, vague, or roundabout expressions rather than those which are blunt, precise, and true. The dictionary provides definitions, examples, as well as historical explanations where appropriate.--From publisher description.