[PDF] The 100 Words That Make The English eBook

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847654592

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Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising. 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).

Author : Tony Thorne
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0748114785

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A JOLLY DECENT CUPPA ... is a wonderfully entertaining compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have over the last century become the cornerstones of modern spoken English, and have been used - sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently - to stake out the common identity that unites the English, to define what makes us who we are, and thus different from those beastly foreigners who lurk just off our shores. Despite attempts by politicians and writers, despite lessons in citizenship enshrined in the national curriculum, we have famously never been able to define for posterity precisely what Englishness is. A JOLLY DECENT CUPPA ... takes certain well-loved and crucial expressions such as sorry, nice, fair play, shag, common, posh, cuppa, chippy or the full monty, explores their strange and wonderful origins, and demonstrates with wit and charm how they are emblems of an era or an attitude, of a heritage and of the traits and quirks essential to all our notions of Englishness.

Author : Tony Thorne
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : English
ISBN :

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A wonderfully entertaining compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have over the last century become the cornerstones of modern spoken English, and have been used - sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently - to stake out the common identity that unites the English, to define what makes us who we are.

Author : Tony Thorne
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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* A wonderfully informative and entertaining guide to our national language - and in particular those words which help define the British identity

Author : Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher : Collins Reference
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2017-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780544913646

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A newly rejacketed edition of the best-selling title in the 100 Words series.

Author : Fraih Solaiman
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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This book is dealing with common English words that have different meanings. A certain word may have a certain meaning in a specific context,then the same word has a different meaning in another context.

Author : Edward Bernard Fry
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 1576907570

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"The most common words for teaching reading, writing, and spelling."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Robert Beard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780984172306

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This book explores what is beautiful in English words by looking closely at the 100 loveliest of them selected by Dr. Robert Beard, formerly Dr. Language at yourDictionary.com and currently Dr. Goodword at alphaDictionary.com. The book begins with an essay on what makes words beautiful and a background essay on the relationships between European and Indian languages. This is followed by essays that examine the pronunciation, meaning, usage, and history of words like cynosure, desultory, ephemeral, gambol, petrichor, serendipity, and Susquehanna. Each word is accompanied by creative examples featuring Beard's regular cast of characters, including Natalie Cladd, Maude Lynn Dresser, Gilda Lilly and the twins, Rita and Rhoda Book.

Author : Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0547350236

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What should the vocabulary of a well-rounded high school graduate be like? These 100 words provide the starting point in answering that question. The list is representative of the words that serious students will encounter in their coursework and will come to use as adults, whether in conversation or while reading the daily newspaper. Each word is fully defined and shown in context with example sentences from well-known authors. 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know is a must-have for every grad, perfect for building vocabulary, quizzing friends and family — and just having fun.

Author : Gabriel Wyner
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 038534810X

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.