Appeal to the English-speaking public on behalf of a new English dictionary [by G. Wheelwright].
Author : George Wheelwright
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : George Wheelwright
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300089196
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. "It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth." --Anthony Burgess "A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." --Times (London) "A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself--grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." --Time "In her vivid biography, Murray's granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED's long and difficult birth." --Times Literary Supplement "A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked." --Sunday Times (London)
Author : Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300106992
Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.
Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
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Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 1933
Category : English language
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Author : Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
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Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1975
Category : English language
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Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate authority on the usage and meaning of English words and phrases, and a fascinating guide to the evolution of our language. It traces the usage, meaning and history of words from 1150 AD to the present day. No dictionary of any language approaches the OED in thoroughness, authority, and wealth of linguistic information. The OED defines over half a million words, and includes almost 2.4 million illustrative quotations, providing an invaluable record of English throughout the centuries. The 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. The OED has a unique historical focus. Accompanying each definition is a chronologically arranged group of quotations that trace the usage of words, and show the contexts in which they can be used. The quotations are drawn from a huge variety of international sources - literary, scholarly, technical, popular - and represent authors as disparate as Geoffrey Chaucer and Erica Jong, William Shakespeare and Raymond Chandler, Charles Darwin and John Le Carré. In all, nearly 2.5 million quotations can be found in the OED . Other features distinguishing the entries in the Dictionary are authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words; detailed information on pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet; listings of variant spellings used throughout each word's history; extensive treatment of etymology; and details of area of usage and of any regional characteristics (including geographical origins).
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Page : 902 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Paul Brians
Publisher : Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Inc.
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2003
Category : English language
ISBN : 1887902899
Online version of Common Errors in English Usage written by Paul Brians.
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : David Abram
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0307830551
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.