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Author : Charlton Grant LAIRD
Release : 1957
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Book Synopsis The Miracle of Language, Etc. [With Illustrations.]. by : Charlton Grant LAIRD
Download or read book The Miracle of Language, Etc. [With Illustrations.]. written by Charlton Grant LAIRD. This book was released on 1957. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Johnson
Release : 1872
Genre : English language
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Book Synopsis An Illustrated Dictionary of the English Language, Etc by : Samuel Johnson
Download or read book An Illustrated Dictionary of the English Language, Etc written by Samuel Johnson. This book was released on 1872. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlton Laird
Release : 1953
Genre : Language and languages
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Book Synopsis The Miracle of Language by : Charlton Laird
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Author : Richard Lederer
Release : 2010-05-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Miracle of Language by : Richard Lederer
Download or read book The Miracle of Language written by Richard Lederer. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.
Author : Richard Lederer
Release : 1999-04-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Miracle of Language by : Richard Lederer
Download or read book The Miracle of Language written by Richard Lederer. This book was released on 1999-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.
