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Author |
: Jeremy Butterfield |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2009-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199574094 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019957409X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Damp Squid by : Jeremy Butterfield
When James Murray compiled the OED in the 19th century, he used a small army of volunteers--and thousands upon thousands of paper slips--to track down the English language. Today, linguists use massive computer power--including the world's largest language databank, the Oxford Corpus, which contains more than two billion words--to determine for the first time definitively how the English language is used. From evidence contained in the gargantuan Oxford Corpus, Jeremy Butterfield here uncovers a wealth of fascinating facts about the English language. Where does our vocabulary come from? How do word meanings change? How is our language really being used? This entertaining book has the up-to-date and authoritative answers to all the key questions about our language. Butterfield takes a thorough look at the English language and exposes its peculiarities and penchants, its development and difficulties, revealing exactly how it operates. We learn, for instance, that we use language in chunks of words--as one linguist put it, "we know words by the company that they keep." For instance, the word quintessentially is joined half the time with a nationality--something is "quintessentially American" or "quintessentially British." Using such observations, Butterfield explains how dictionary makers decide which words to include, how they find definitions, and how the Corpus influences the process. Covering all areas of English, from spelling and idioms to the future of English, and with entertaining examples and useful charts throughout, this compelling and lively book will delight word lovers everywhere.
Author |
: Jeremy Butterfield |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199239061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199239061 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Damp Squid by : Jeremy Butterfield
"In this book, Jeremy Butterfield mines the Oxford Corpus, a vast collection of electronically-held texts used for compiling Oxford's world-famous dictionaries. He uncovers a wealth of fascinating facts and figures across the whole spectrum of English - from vocabulary size and word origins to spelling and meaning, from word groupings and idiomatic phrases to grammar and usage." "Whether you are happy to give the language free rein (free reign?), or whether you are more straight-laced (strait-laced?) when it comes to change, you will be amazed at what is revealed when the English language goes buck naked. (Or should that be butt naked?)"--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles |
Publisher |
: Severn House Publishers Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2016-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780107196 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780107196 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Under by : Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
For a policeman, there are some questions that have to be asked even if you don’t want to know the answers . . . A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd’s Bush station, and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane puzzlingly far from her home on the White City Estate: two unrelated incidents which occupy DCI Bill Slider and his team during a slack period. At least it’s a change of speed after the grind of domestics, burglaries and Community Liaison. But links to a cold case – another dead teenager, pulled out of the River Thames – create doubts as to whether they are indeed unrelated. And slowly a trail of corruption and betrayal is uncovered, leading Slider and his firm ever deeper into a morass of horror.
Author |
: Jag Bhalla |
Publisher |
: Disney Electronic Content |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2009-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426205309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1426205309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World by : Jag Bhalla
"I’m not hanging noodles on your ears." In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me. As author Jag Bhalla demonstrates, these amusing, often hilarious phrases provide a unique perspective on how different cultures perceive and describe the world. Organized by theme—food, love, romance, and many more—they embody cultural traditions and attitudes, capture linguistic nuance, and shed fascinating light on "the whole ball of wax." For example, when English-speakers are hard at work, we’re "nose to the grindstone," but industrious Chinese toil "with liver and brains spilled on the ground" and busy Indians have "no time to die." If you’re already fluent in 10 languages, you probably won’t need this book, but you’ll "get a kick out of it" anyhow; for the rest of us, it’s a must. Either way, this surprising, often thought-provoking little tome is gift-friendly in appearance, a perfect impulse buy for word lovers, travelers, and anyone else who enjoys looking at life in a riotous, unusual way. And we’re not hanging noodles from your ear.
Author |
: Colin McNairn |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2015-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781632208989 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1632208989 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis In a Manner of Speaking by : Colin McNairn
What do “the whole kit and caboodle,” “the whole shebang,” “the whole megillah,” “the whole enchilada,” “the whole nine yards,” “the whole box and dice,” and “the full Monty” have in common? They’re all expressions that mean “the entire quantity,” and they’re all examples of the breadth and depth of the English-speaking world’s vocabulary. From the multitude of words and phrases in daily use, the author of this delightful exploration into what we say and why we say it zeroes in on those expressions and sayings and their variations that are funny, quirky, just plain folksy, or playfully dressed up in rhyme or alliteration. Some may have become clichés that, as it’s said with “tongue in cheek,” should be “avoided like the plague.” Others have been distorted, deemed politically incorrect, or shrouded in mystery and must bear some explanation. Among the topics the author delves into are expressions that shouldn’t be taken literally (“dressed to kill” and “kick the bucket”), foreign expressions that crept into English (“carte blanche,” “carpe diem,” and “que sera, sera”), phrases borrowed from print ads and TV commercials (“where there’s life, there’s Bud” and “where the rubber meets the road”), animal images (“a barrel of monkeys” and “chasing your tail”), and food and drink (“cast your bread upon the water,” “chew the fat,” “bottom’s up!”, and “drink as a lord”). Here’s a book for everyone who delights in the mysteries of language and the perfect gift for all the “wordies” in your life.
Author |
: Penny Culliford |
Publisher |
: Zondervan |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2009-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780310864325 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0310864321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theodora's Diary by : Penny Culliford
Saturday 8th May. Emergency!It is 11:30 p.m. and I am suffering from an incredibly intense chocolate craving that will not leave me in spite of prayer, distraction activities and half a loaf of bread and butter. Got out of bed and searched the flat. No luck. Not even a bourbon biscuit. Not even a cream egg left from Easter. All the shops are closed so no nipping out to replenish supplies. Nothing else for it. I’m reduced to the chocoholic’s equivalent of meths—cooking chocolate.It’s been one of those days for Theodora. Her mother has become the Greek equivalent of Delia Smith, her boyfriend would rather watch 22 men kick a ball around a field than go shopping with her, and chintzy Charity Hubble wants to pray for her. And of course, the crowning insult is her utter lack of chocolate. Join in her daily life with all of its challenges and joys, tears and laughter.“Theodora’s Diary is a hilarious and realistic peek into the life of a sprightly Christian sister living ‘across the pond.’ I found myself laughing out loud and thinking, ‘Yes, life is just like this!’ Penny Culliford is a welcome new voice in inspirational fiction.” --Angela Hunt, author of The Debt.
Author |
: Martin Toseland |
Publisher |
: Portico |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2013-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781909396104 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1909396109 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ants Are My Friends by : Martin Toseland
Linguistic mistakes. We all make them. And if your name is George W Bush, you might make them more often than others. In 'The Ants are My Friends' (delightfully misheard from Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind") Martin Toseland has collected the very best (and very worst) linguistic gifts of the gaffe. The catergories features include: Malapropisms (named after Mrs Malaprop in Sheridan's "The Rivals" where the wrong word pops out to bizarre results); Eggcorns (where a new word is created from misheard real one - the name comes from someone misunderstanding 'acorn' as 'eggcorn', as it has the same shape); Bushisms (the humour in which cannot be misunderestimated); and Mondegreens or misheard lyrics, which include such classic examples as: Who Ya Gonna Call, Gus Foster ("Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Junior); Last Night I Dreamed of Some Bagels ("La Isla Bonita" by Madonna); Sparing His Life For His Mum's Sausages ("Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen); It's a Fruit, Fruit Samba ("Cruel Summer" by Bananarama); and, Mr Tangerine Man ("Mr Tambourine Man" by Bob Dylan).
Author |
: Hyll Fox |
Publisher |
: Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2019-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789820676 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789820677 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vernon Vole by : Hyll Fox
Not wanting to be late, one fine morning, one fine day, Vernon Vole and his friends get underway and head for their annual village fete. Once there, they enjoy all the fun of the fair, meeting friends old and new, and later at a tea party, even a gnu. On their next venture together, again in good weather, they arrive at a market, selling all sorts of things; one stall being run by a gnat, another ran by both a bat and a fox, who, like his colleague, apparently has wings. This collection of seven short stories, written in a freeform rhyming verse style by Hyll Fox, will charm and delight in equal measure, making this collection the perfect addition to any bookshelf.
Author |
: Brian Williams |
Publisher |
: Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2017-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785903489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785903489 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Home From Home by : Brian Williams
West Ham United, the object of an irrational affection that has dominated the life of journalist and writer Brian Williams, has moved from its old home to what was the Olympic Stadium in Stratford. It is not a move he welcomed. It's not just the football itself. The supporters have left behind all the match day rituals that go with the game. A pint in the Denmark Arms, a hot dog in Priory Road, an occasional trip to the wonderful Newham Bookshop. East Ham is a residential area, with all the amenities that go with it. The same cannot be said of the Olympic Park, which surrounds the new stadium. No pubs, no chippies – and certainly no mobile phone shops like the one in the Barking Road Brian regularly walked past that proudly announced it also sold baby chickens. All of this has been replaced by a soulless stadium and corporate catering, with not a baby chicken to be had for love or money. Williams charts the most momentous change in his club's history by comparing the last season at his beloved Boleyn Ground with the first at West Ham's new home. In doing so he delivers a passionate lament for a time when football was the people's game, not a cynical exercise in developing a customer base or building a marketable brand. A crie de coer that will ring true not just for battle scarred Hammers, but with fans of all clubs, great and small.
Author |
: Peter Shefston |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 96 |
Release |
: 2014-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781326024819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1326024817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The A to Z of Business Grammar and Style by : Peter Shefston
A concise guide to the correct use of grammar and style for business users. By avoiding complex grammatical theory and the inclusion of examples of correct usage, this is an easy to use reference guide.