Word Lover's Dictionary
Author : Josefa Heifetz
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2002-07-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781567315547
Author : Josefa Heifetz
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2002-07-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781567315547
Author : Josefa Heifetz
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Josefa Heifetz
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1980
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780586206003
Author : Josefa Heifetz
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 1990
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Josefa Heifetz Byrne
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 1976
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780806504988
Author : Christopher Foyle
Publisher : Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The word 'philavery' was invented to describe this book - a collection of words chosen simply on the grounds of their aesthetic appeal. Some of these words appeal because of their aptness, some for their obscurity, some for their euphony, and some for their quirkiness.
Author : Randall Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307538915
Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?
Author : Josefa Heifetz Byrne
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781616086503
From aasvogel (the South African vulture) to knurry (full of knots), from melangeur (a machine for making chocolate syrup) to zumbooruk (a small cannon fired from the back of a camel), the words in this book are guaranteed to expand your vocabulary and confound your friends. They may be obscure and even preposterous, but every entry in this eye-opening book has been accepted as a formal or legitimate English word by at least one major dictionary. This dictionary does not claim or attempt to be complete. It is based completely on the editor’s sense of wonder and absurdity. It is educational, yes, but also more fun than any dictionary has a right to be!
Author : Josefa Heifetz
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780821602034