Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780877796220
Revised edition of Webster's standard American style manual, 1985.
Author : Noah Webster
Publisher :
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1841
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9780877790426
Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.
Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN :
This comprehensive volume serves as a lively guide to our literary tradition. Each entry is written in clear, concise, yet engaging style that makes this book the perfect reference for both students and lovers of American literature.
Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : 범문사
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780877791874
All the conventions of good writing effectively summarized. Covers punctuation, capitalization, plurals & possessives, & compound words. Shows how to create notes & bibliographies.
Author : Merriam-Webster
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780877790952
New edition! A handy, reliable, and authoritative dictionary of words most frequently used in Englis. More than 75,000 definitions, 2,000 new word entries, and more than 150 illustrations. Expanded special features include a Handbook of Style, Basic English Grammar, Irregular English Verbs and a Guid eto Common Verb Collocations (both essential for ESL), and a new Overview of the Internet.
Author : Tracey Fern
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1466895101
From an early age, Noah Webster was an odd fellow who liked to talk big and loved learning. He thought America needed its own national language and knew he was just the man to create it. He started with a speller, including everyday words like "scab," "grub," and "mop," and moved on to create a small dictionary. He rode around on a horse, selling his books by hand. Then Noah decided to compile a complete and comprehensive dictionary of American English. He thought the book would take him five years to finish. It took twenty, but his dictionary today is the second-most printed book in the English language.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780760755440
A guide to America's literary tradition. Over 16,000 articles on writers, literary works, movements, and influential periodicals. More than 170 black-and-white photographs. The companion volume to C-Span's series American Writers: A Journey Through History Annotation. A guide to the writers, literary works, and movements that have shaped America's literary tradition. Spanning almost 400 years, some 1,600 entries offer profiles of about 1,000 writers, synopses of some 500 literary works, and descriptions of about 75 groups, movements, and periodicals. Entries on writers give significant biographical details and descriptions of the author's career and most important works. Authors profiled include novelists, poets, essayists, and dramatists. Many entries include a b & w photo of the author. Material is easily accessible for all levels of readers high school and up. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Perfect for browsing or study, this book is a fascinating guide to America's greatest writers beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through contemporary authors. The dictionary is the official companion to the C-SPAN series "American Writers: A Journey Through History". 150+ photos
Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110197026X
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0691210179
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
