Books, Reference, Dictionaries & Thesauruses, Lexicography

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Murray Bromberg, Melvin Gordon
1100 Words You Need to Know
by Barrons Educational Series Inc (Paperback)

Aimed at college-bound students who need extra vocabulary help, this 20-minute-a-day program guides users towards a mastery of 920 new words and 200 useful idioms. All new in this edition are 46 words-in-context exercises that reflect the SAT change in emphasis regarding vocabulary questions.

David Crystal
Words Words Words
by Oxford University Press, USA (Paperback)

"Lexicography is not just an exercise in linguistic accounting," writes preeminent English language scholar David Crystal in this exceptionally lively and erudite little book. "It is a voyage of lexical exploration and discovery." In Words, Words, Words, Crystal takes readers on a fascinating linguistic adventure, exploring the English language in all its oddity, complexity, and ever-changing beauty. Traveling from word origins and word evolution to wordgangs, wordrisks, wordplay, wordgames and beyond, Crystal shares his immense knowledge of, and equally immense delight in, language. He celebrates new words, old words, words that "snarl" and words that "purr," elegant words and taboo words, plain English words and convoluted gobbledegook, eponyms and antonyms, spoonerisms and malapropisms, and a host of other written and spoken forms and variations. Words, Words, Words offers invaluable insight on such subjects as how to estimate the size of your vocabulary the functions of ...

Jan Venolia
The Right Word!: How to Say What You Really Mean (Right! Series)
by Ten Speed Press (Paperback)

Every writer needs help with words: choosing them, using them, spelling them correctly. What’s the difference between chronic and acute? When is optimal or optimum the better choice? Why use germane when relevant is, well, more relevant? Created for just such tortuous (torturous?) situations, this handy guide, the latest in the Right! series by noted writing authority Jan Venolia, provides an A-to-Z listing of troublesome, confusing words, accompanied by clear examples and explanations to help avoid common mistakes. With a discussion on getting the most out of words, a helpful resource section, humorous illustrations, and clever bits of wordplay, this compact reference is the perfect addition to the writer’s shelf.

Richard Lederer
The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun
by St. Martin's Griffin (Paperback)

Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows us the naughtier side of wordplay, revealing hundreds of hilarious, ingenious, unabashed, and adults-only puns, jokes, limericks, one-liners, and other adventures in sexual humor. This book of "good, clean dirty fun" will delight word hounds, punsters, bachelor-party goers, and anyone who likes a clever grown-up joke.Here's a taste of The Cunning Linguist:Q: What does a man have in his pants that you can also find on a pool table?A: Pockets.Have you heard about the incompatible couple?He had no income, and she wasn't pattable.The four stages of a couple's sex life:Under 35: Tri-weekly35-45: Try weekly45-55: Try weakly55 and over: Try, try, try.For much more, sneak between the covers of this unique and laugh-out-loud book.

Donna Lee Berg
A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

In a recent review of the Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM, Library Journal called the accompanying booklet, a brief guide to the OED, a "work of art." Now, this work of art has been expanded and enhanced to a full-length book, A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary. Here Donna Lee Berg has provided a fascinating source of general information about the OED as well as a detailed account of the conventions and organization of the dictionary text, specially designed to enhance the reader's enjoyment and understanding of this incomparable work. This lively volume is the first to provide an in-depth account of the structure of the OED: it gives an analysis of the components of a typical entry, and covers special entries, such as acronyms, abbreviations, and proper names. In addition, a fascinating A-Z companion section covers grammatical terms, languages, the history of the Dictionary, the individuals who have shaped it, and a host of other topics. Also included are a ...

Ronald Carter
Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives (Aspects of English)
by Unwin Hyman (Hardcover)

This book has considerable merits ...eminently readable ...coheres as a whole remarkably well ...an extremely wide range of research and literature is covered ...recommended' - EFL Gazette Until recently, vocabulary has been relatively neglected as an area of language study. This book provides the necessary basis for further study of modern English vocabulary, with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and to educational contexts. A detailed and wide-ranging bibliography covers many aspects of lexis and modern English language studies. Part 1 : offers an introductory account of linguistic approaches to the analysis of the modern lexicon in English Part 2 : reviews recent work on vocabulary in relation to literary stylistics, lexicography and vocabulary learning and teaching Part 3 : details two case studies

Wendy S Enelow
1500+ Key Words for $100,000+ Jobs: Tools to Build Winning Resumes
by Impact Publications (Paperback)

The definitive guide to selecting and using Key Words to build powerful resumes for today's job market.

John Willinsky
Empire of Words
by Princeton University Press (Hardcover)

What is the meaning of a word? Most readers turn to the dictionary for authoritative meanings and correct usage. But what is the source of authority in dictionaries? Some dictionaries employ panels of experts to fix meaning and prescribe usage, others rely on derivation through etymology. But perhaps no other dictionary has done more to standardize the English language than the formidable twenty- volume Oxford English Dictionary in its 1989 second edition. Yet this most Victorian of modern dictionaries derives its meaning by citing the earliest known usage of words and by demonstrating shades of meaning through an awesome database of over five million examples of usage in context. In this fascinating study, John Willinsky challenges the authority of this imperial dictionary, revealing many of its inherent prejudices and questioning the assumptions of its ongoing revision. "Clearly, the OED is no simple record of the language `as she is spoke,'" Willinsky writes. "It is a ...

Marvin S. Zuckerman
Words, Words, Words: An English Vocabulary Builder and Anthology
by McGraw-Hill/Glencoe (Paperback)

Paul Hellweg
The Insomniac's Dictionary: The Last Word on the Odd Word
by Facts on File (Hardcover)

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