I Always Look Up The Word Egregious

Author : Maxwell W. Nurnberg
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760708378
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Always Look Up the Word "egregious" written by Maxwell W. Nurnberg and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-of-a-kind reference, a delightful book for anyone who loves words-and the witty, precise, and sometimes scathing way they are used in the best of writing.

Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Berkowitz
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039107133
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whirl of Words written by Jonathan Berkowitz and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do word puzzles fascinate us? How do they help develop problem-solving skills? How do they teach us about geography, literature, sports, and popular culture? How are they an international language? Jonathan Berkowitz offers a brief history of wordplay, with insights into puzzles and the brain. He offers tips on how to solve puzzles and explains the educational value of puzzles. Challenges in the form of rebuses, anagrams, codes and cryptograms, crosswords, and wordplay with numbers supply even more fun! The Whirl of Words is a unique, rich, and intriguing tour of a wide variety of word puzzles certain to stimulate a brain work-out.

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 030780058X
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Maven Strikes Again written by William Safire and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good news! America’s master wordsmith strikes again with a new collection of erudite, witty, provocative, sometimes barbed, frequently hilarious “On Language” columns. Published in The New York Times and syndicated in more than three hundred other newspapers, these opinions from the “Supreme Court of Current English Usage” cover everything from the bottom line on tycoonese and the accesses* of computerese to portmanteau words like televangelist and Draconomics (the language maven’s own plan for our bloated economy). Although Safire makes an admirable case for adverbs and adjectives, advocates of strong verbs will be heartened to hear that he also: pleads for the preservation of the subjunctive mood; delivers, hot off the college campus, the latest lingo in which ‘rents means parents and yesterday’s wimps are today’s squids; decries the brevity-is-next-to-godliness literary school; bids farewell to anxiety (it’s been replaced by trendy stress or swangst); noodles over such weighty geopolitical questions as “when an intercept of a fighter is a buzz”; bemoans the loss of roughage to fiber; and rides herd over the language spoken in Marlboro Country. More good news! Safire again spices his own wit and wisdom with correspondence from Lexicographic irregulars, those zealous readers and letter writers who reply to his columns with praise, scorn, corrections and nitpicks—anything to match wits with Super-maven. If You Could Look It Up and Take My Word for It occupy prominent spots in your bookcase, then Language Maven Strikes Again belongs there too. If they don’t, then begin with this Safire and work your way back. *That’s not a typo—that’s a pun.

Author : Chrysti Mueller Smith
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560375280
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verbivore's Feast written by Chrysti Mueller Smith and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What led to the expression "let the cat out of the bag"? Why do we call blondes "towheads"? For Pete's sake, what is a fangle? In this humorous and engaging collection of word origins and histories, the famed host of the Chrysti the Wordsmith series (heard on Yellowstone Public Radio, Montana Public Radio, Montana State University's KGLT-FM, and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) shares the stories behind the words. This irresistible medley is a must for word lovers everywhere.

Author : Jack Lynch
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585105813
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Language written by Jack Lynch and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and expanded from one of the most popular grammar sites on the web, this book provides a modern guide to English usage for the 21st century. With topics arranged alphabetically and written in an enjoyable and readable tone, The English Language: A User’s Guide will help students and writers understand the nature of the language, explaining the 'why' of the rules as well as what constitutes good grammar and style. Going beyond the prescriptive wrong /right examples, Jack Lynch includes examples of weak/strong, good/better, disputed/preferred, and informal/formal usage.

Author : Donald M. Ayers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547130
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Words from Latin and Greek Elements written by Donald M. Ayers and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1965, Donald Ayers' English Words from Latin and Greek Elements has helped thousands of students to a broader vocabulary by showing them how to recognize classical roots in modern English words. Its second edition, published in 1986, has confirmed that vocabulary is best taught by root, not rote. The importance of learning classical word roots is already acknowledged by vocabulary texts that devote chapters to them. Why a whole book based on this approach? Ayers' text exposes students to a wider range of roots, introduces new English words in context sentences, and reinforces vocabulary through exercises. It promotes more practice with roots so that students learn to use them as tools in their everyday encounters with new words. English Words is written from the standpoint of English; it neither attempts to teach students Latin or Greek nor expects a knowledge of classical languages on the part of instructors. Its success has been demonstrated at both the secondary and college levels, and it can be used effectively with students in remedial or accelerated programs. An Instructor's Manual (gratis with adoption) and a Workbook are also available.

Author : Jan Leighton
Publisher : Levenger Company
ISBN 13 : 9781929154128
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rare Words and Ways to Master Their Meanings written by Jan Leighton and published by Levenger Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101873442
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild (Movie Tie-in Edition) written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307962814
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition) written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. ] Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection: This special eBook edition of Cheryl Strayed’s national best seller, Wild, features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide.