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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
Henry Hitchings
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words...
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
This newly updated edition of America's favorite dictionary features revised biographical and geographical entries as well as up-to-date charts and tables for topics such as world currencies and chemical elements. Among the 500 entries new to this...
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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Ammon Shea
Perigee Trade
Perigee Trade
An obsessive word lovers account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. Im reading the OED so you dont have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on... ...
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As They Say in Zanzibar: Proverbial Wisdom From Around the World
David Crystal
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
In this captivating tour of humanity's received wisdom, one of Britain's best-known and best-selling authorities on language, David Crystal, brings together more than 2,000 delightful proverbs from 110 countries--the first new book of world proverbs...
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Words Their Way: Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers
Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Francine Johnston
Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall
This book provides teachers with concept sorting ideas followed by picture sorts for developing phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge, letter recognition and concept of words in print. This companion volume augments that content with numerous...
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Exploring Medical Language: A Student-Directed Approach
Myrna LaFleur Brooks
Mosby
Mosby
Master the medical terminology you'll need for success in the health care with this unique, objective-based approach! Focused entirely on medical terminology and vocabulary, this trusted text helps you understand complex medical terms with a proven...
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