The Anglo-Karen Dictionary
Author : Jonathan Wade
Publisher :
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 1883
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Wade
Publisher :
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 1883
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Rev Jonathan Wade
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2011-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781849023849
Anglo-Karen Dictionary by Rev. Jonathan Wade, D.D., Mrs. J. G. Binney and Rev. George Blackwell.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Harry Ignatius Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Burma
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Wade
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438786759
Author : Win Blevins
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0875654835
Did you ever need to spell “dogie” (as in, get-along-little), or need to know what a “sakey” is? This is the book that can tell you how to spell, pronounce, and define over 5,000 terms relative to the American West. Want to know what a “breachy” cow is? Turn to page 43 to learn that it’s an adjective used to describe a cow that has a tendency to find her way through fences where she isn’t supposed to be. Describes some teenagers we know… Spend hours perusing the dictionary at random, or read straight through to give you a flavor of the West from its beginnings to contemporary days. Laced with photographs and maps, the Dictionary of the American West will make you sound like an expert on all things Western, even if you don’t know your dingus from a dinner plate. Compiled of words brought into English from Native Americans, emigrants, Mormons, Hispanics, migrant workers, loggers, and fur trappers, the dictionary opens up history and culture in an enchanting way. From “Aarigaa!” to “zopilote,” the Dictionary of the American West is a “valuable book, a treasure for any literate American’s library.” (Tony Hillerman)
Author : François Furet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674177284
The French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to provoke a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume presents the research of a wide range of international scholars into those questions. 58 color illustrations, 10 halftones.
Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1443432954
In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.
Author : Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 1904
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Pip Williams
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984820737
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Set during the height of the women’s suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story. The Dictionary of Lost Words is a delightful, lyrical, and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words and the power of language to shape the world. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARD