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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Presents a selection of correspondence, along with major essays, columns, interviews, introductions, articles, reviews, and appreciations in which William F. Buckley expresses his opinions about words and language usage, and includes a lexicon of words he employs in his writings.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century ("roe," in case you are wondering). Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ("loaf") to cutting-edge...
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Reviews basic grammar, including parts of speech, sentence structure, and subject-verb agreement; provides a manual of usage, instruction on writing paragraphs and research papers, and how to develop one's own style; and includes exercises and a test.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Thirty-five hundred entries offer information of writing and speech, linguistics, rhetoric, literary terms, and related topics. Contains a chronology of English and Roman times to 1990, and an index of people who appear in entries, and biographies of influential figures such as Noah Webster and Noam Chomsky.
16) Punctuation
Author
Publisher
Career Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Details the proper rules of punctuation and provides exercises for hyphens, dashes, colons, semicolons, apostrophes, parentheses, and other forms of punctuation.
Author
Publisher
Merriam-Webster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Contains definitions of over 20,000 terms related to six thousand color illustrations, grouped in seventeen themes including astronomy, Earth, plants, animals, human being, food and kitchen, house, do-it-yourself and gardening, clothing, personal accessories and articles, arts and architecture, communications and office automation, transport and machinery, energy, science, society, and sports and games.
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