What do the words 'digerati’, 'quasar’ and 'youthanasia’ have in common? They are all portmanteau words: words that fuse the sounds and combine the meanings of two or more separate words. The term was first used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871), when Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice some of the unusual words in the poem 'Jabberwocky’. Today such words as 'Oxbridge’ and 'ruckus’ feature in everyday speech, and more portmanteau words are continuously being coined by the media. In this charming little book, Rebecca May presents an A-Z of portmanteau words - some new, some absurd, some widely used - and provides a witty definition and appealing illustration for each word, together with its derivation. Light-hearted but also highly informative, Portmanteau A-Z is a testament to the richness and versatility of English, and will appeal to design and language buffs alike.

If you know your ABCs, why not try the sharks alphabet? Presents 26 weird and wonderful creatures from the deep.

Streamlined techniques offer improved methods that shrink the learning curve and bring aspiring calligraphers immediate satisfaction. Its innovations include: a technique that allows you to form all letters, numerals, and punctuation marks with just a few basic strokes; emphasis on the structural elements of lettering; and more.

This children dictionary book is a combination of two languagesEnglish and Farsi. Children dictionary like all other dictionaries is a book about words. It tells you what each word means and how each word spells. For each word in this book, a picture of the word exists. In addition, this book provides pronunciation of translated exact English word to Farsi word. Children dictionary book shows how to use each word in a sentence both in English and Farsi. At the end of this book, there is English alphabet and Farsi alphabet. However, that Farsi alphabet is like Arabic alphabet. (Farsi alphabet has four more letters of PEH, CH, ZH, GEH or . - - .) English language has twenty-six alphabets, and Farsi language has thirty-two alphabets. Writing direction in English is from left to right, but in Farsi is from right to left. This children dictionary book shows spelling of the English and Farsi word and sentence and pronunciation of translated English word to the Farsi word. Also, I wrote the vowels of pronunciation of Farsi word in English. This children dictionary book is in ABC order. You can find a word that begins with A before a word that begins with B and a word that begins with B before a word that begins with C. There is a box of alphabet (AZ), which you can find each word according to the letter they begin with. For example, you can find the word airplane in the A section of the dictionary. Children dictionary gives the (1) spelling of a word, (2) meaning of a word, (3) picture of a word, and (4) pronunciation of a translated word from English to Farsi. Sometimes one word has more than one meaning, and only you can find the meaning of the word based on a given sentence. For example, shir has three different meanings in Farsi (lion, milk, and faucet). Pictures and meanings of these words are shown in children dictionary book. Most pictures in this book are drawn by the author, others are used from first grade Farsi book in Iran, and some are from relatives who permitted their pictures to be used in the book. Also, there are few Internet pictures that are permitted to be used in this book.

This book is mostly a collection of true stories about demonic beings frightening, torturing, and creating chaos among humans. The first reason I authored this book was because I simply enjoy this topic. Yes, I am a bit odd. I find topics that are strange, mysterious, and diabolical to be interesting. The second reason is because we are in a spiritual battle, and I find many Christians that I know seem to be almost oblivious to this fact. My hope in this book is to make you more aware of the battle going on around us and that we can and should be ready to defend and battle Satan and his demonic army. “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” Ephesians 6:12.

The Complete Book of the Alphabet provides 352 pages of fun exercises that guide children from writing each letter of the alphabet to recognizing each letter of the alphabet and the sounds they make! Concepts are reinforced with puzzles and activity pages, and there is also a special section in the back of the book for parents and educators which includes songs, rhymes, and activities that further reinforce childrenÕs knowledge of the alphabet. --Over 4 million in print! Designed by leading experts, books in theÊComplete BookÊseries help children in grades preschool-6 build a solid foundation in key subject areas for learning success.ÊComplete BooksÊare the most thorough and comprehensive learning guides available, offering high-interest lessons to encourage learning and fun, full-color illustrations to spark interest. Each book also features challenging concepts and activities to motivate independent study, a fun page of stickers, and a complete answer key to measure performance and guide instruction.

Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.

Alphabetic letters are ubiquitous, multivalent, and largely ignored. Playful Letters reveals their important cultural contributions through Alphabetics—a new interpretive model for understanding artistic production that attends to the signifying interplay of the graphemic, phonemic, lexical, and material capacities of letters. A key period for examining this interplay is the century and a half after the invention of printing, with its unique media ecology of print, manuscript, sound, and image. Drawing on Shakespeare, anthropomorphic typography, figured letters, and Cyrillic pedagogy and politics, this book explores the ways in which alphabetic thinking and writing inform literature and the visual arts, and it develops reading strategies for the “letterature” that underwrites such cultural production. Playful Letters begins with early modern engagements with the alphabet and the human body—an intersection where letterature emerges with startling force. The linking of letters and typography with bodies produced a new kind of literacy. In turn, educational habits that shaped letter learning and writing permeated the interrelated practices of typography, orthography, and poetry. These mutually informing processes render visible the persistent crumbling of words into letters and their reconstitution into narrative, poetry, and image. In addition to providing a rich history of literary and artistic alphabetic interrogation in early modern Western Europe and Russia, Playful Letters contributes to the continuous story of how people use new technologies and media to reflect on older forms, including the alphabet itself.

Every puzzle contains all 26 letters of the alphabet, but you have to know more than just your ABCs to solve these cleverly constructed grids. From "Straight As" to "Grabbing Some Zs," this crossword compendium entices puzzle lovers with 72 alphabet-related brainbusters. Try your hand at any of the 26 themed puzzles, each based on one letter of the alphabet, but be prepared for a twist. Take on the "3-H Club" puzzle and triple your task, finding solutions like "head honcho" and "high-handed," with 3 Hs instead of just one. Or tackle the "B Movies" puzzle, with witty clues and solutions where one letter makes all the difference--What's a 1955 film about a Biblical monster? Beast of Eden, of course! And for those who like their puzzles straight up, there are 46 themeless options to choose from as well.