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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translationby George SteinerISBN 0192880934 (0-19-288093-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation'Book summary:When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. Taking issue with the principal emphasis of modern linguistics, he finds the root of the "Babel problem" in our deep instinct for privacy and territory, noting that every people has in its language a unique body of shared secrecy. With this provocative thesis he analyzes every aspect of translation from fundamental conditions of interpretation to the most intricate of linguistic constructions.
For the long-awaited second edition, Steiner entirely revised the text, added new and expanded notes, and wrote a new preface setting the work in the present context of hermeneutics, poetics, and translation studies. This new edition brings the bibliography up to the present with substantially updated references, including much Russian and Eastern European material. Like the towering figures of Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault, Steiner's work is central to current literary thought. After Babel, Third Edition is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the debates raging in the academy today. [via]More editions of After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation:
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The Ascent of Babel: An Exploration of Language, Mind and Understandingby Gerry T. M. AltmannISBN 0198523777 (0-19-852377-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Biography of the English Languageby C.M. MillwardISBN 0155016458 (0-15-501645-8)
Hardcover, Heinle
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Bizarre Booksby Russell Ash, Brian LakeISBN 0312082509 (0-312-08250-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Brewer's Book of Myth and Legendby J. C. CooperISBN 0304340847 (0-304-34084-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Brewer's Dictionary of 20th-Century Phrase and Fableby Alan Isaacs, Elizabeth Martin, David PickeringISBN 0304340596 (0-304-34059-6)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fableby Sean McMahon, Maeve Binchy, Jo O'DonoghueISBN 0304363340 (0-304-36334-0)
Hardcover, Cassell P L C
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Cassell Everyday Phrases: Their Origins and Meaningsby Neil EwartISBN 0304340642 (0-304-34064-2)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slangby Jonathon GreenISBN 0304366366 (0-304-36636-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Cassell's Dictionary of Word Historiesby Adrian RoomISBN 0304363839 (0-304-36383-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Cassell's Foreign Words and Phrasesby Adrian RoomISBN 0304350087 (0-304-35008-7)
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Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionaryby K.M. Elizabeth MurrayISBN 0300089198 (0-300-08919-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionaryby R. W. Burchfield, K.M. Elizabeth MurrayISBN 0300063105 (0-300-06310-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Chicago Manual of StyleISBN 0226104036 (0-226-10403-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This BookBook summary:What can we say? This weighty tome is the essential reference for all who work with words--writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, publishers, and students. Discover who Ibid is, how to deftly avoid the split infinitive, and how to format your manuscripts to impress any professor or editor (no, putting it in a blue plastic folder is just not enough). [via]
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The Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors, and Copywritersby University of ChicagoISBN 0226103900 (0-226-10390-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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China : Empire of Living Symbolsby Cecilia LindqvistISBN 0201570092 (0-201-57009-2)
Hardcover, Pearson Education Canada
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Chosen Wordsby Ivor BrownISBN 0313208956 (0-313-20895-6)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticismby Joseph Childers, Gary HentziISBN 0231072430 (0-231-07243-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current Englishby Catherine SoanesISBN 019860713X (0-19-860713-X)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current Englishby Sara Hawker, Catherine SoanesISBN 019861022X (0-19-861022-X)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Namesby Eilart EkwallISBN 0198691033 (0-19-869103-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Word Originsby T.F. HoadISBN 0198691661 (0-19-869166-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Depraved and Insulting Englishby Ammon Shea, Peter NovobatzkyISBN 0156011492 (0-15-601149-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 0195126270 (0-19-512627-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dictionary'Book summary:These caustic aphorisms, collected in The Devil's Dictionary, helped earn Ambrose Bierce the epithets Bitter Bierce, the Devil's Lexicographer, and the Wickedest Man in San Francisco. First published as The Cynic's Word Book (1906) and later reissued under its preferred name in 1911, Bierce's notorious collection of barbed definitions forcibly contradicts Samuel Johnson's earlier definition of a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. There was nothing harmless about Ambrose Bierce, and the words he shaped into verbal pitchforks a century ago--with or without the devil's help--can still draw blood today. [via]
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A Dictionary of English Place-Namesby A. D. MillsISBN 0192800744 (0-19-280074-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of English Place-Names'Book summary:England's diverse and often odd-sounding place-names speak of thousands of years of history, reflecting conquest and migration, topography, local trades and agriculture, and changing customs. With over 12,000 informative entries, The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names offers a unique path into this rich past of the English landscape, as read in local names.
Time and time again, the British Isles have been overrun by invading nations--the Romans, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, to name a few--each leaving their language and locations etched into the countryside. The traces of these successive tongues can be heard in such places as Humber (pre-Celtic), York (Celtic), Lincoln (Latin), Scunthorpe (Scandanavian), Basingstoke (Old English), Devizes (French), and Broadstairs (Middle English). Chester, for example, began as a Roman military base, and originated as a latin word for a camp. Mills reveals how local names reflect such elements as the size of a place (as in Much Wenlock), its location (High Barnet), a local product (Saffron Walden), the tribe that settled there (Essex), natural features (Bromsgrove), or pre-Christian worship (Wednesbury).
This fascinating resource offers clear, concise entries that discuss the meaning and origin of these names, tracing their development from the earliest appearances to the present day. Mills provides earlier forms of each name, along with the earliest date and its spelling in the Domesday Book (William the Conqueror's famous survey of England) if it appears there. He also covers recent place-names and establishes the contemporary location of each site. Additional features include a select bibliography, maps of England's changing counties, and a helpful glossary of common elements in English place-names.
Covering cities and suburbs, towns and villages, counties and districts, rivers and coastlines, The Dictionary of English Place Names offers an authoritative reference and a unique historical tour through the English countryside. For readers interested in history, literature, or travel (armchair or otherwise), this volume will provide long hours of enjoyment. [via]More editions of A Dictionary of English Place-Names:
A Dictionary Of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Meanby R. W. HolderISBN 0198607628 (0-19-860762-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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English As a Second F*Cking Languageby Sterling JohnsonISBN 031214329X (0-312-14329-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Eric Partridge in His Own Wordsby Eric Partridge, David CrystalISBN 0233973001 (0-233-97300-1)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literatureby John Bartlett, Justin KaplanISBN 0316084603 (0-316-08460-3)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature'Book summary:This 16th edition of the book, first published in 1855, has been expanded to include more than 20,000 quotations and more than 340 new authors both historical and contemporary - from Russell Baker, The Doors, Elvis, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen Hawking, Primo Levi, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, the Talmud, Alice Walker and Elie Wiesel. This edition has been revised and edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. [via]
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Fowler's Modern English Usageby R. W. Burchfield, H. W. FowlerISBN 0198610211 (0-19-861021-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fowler's Modern English Usage'Book summary:For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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The Freeholderby Joseph Addison, James LehenyISBN 0198124945 (0-19-812494-5)
Hardcover, Clarendon Pr
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A Grammar of the English Languageby William CobbettISBN 0198605080 (0-19-860508-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Growth and Structure of the English Languageby Otto JespersenISBN 0226398773 (0-226-39877-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Growth and Structure of the English Language'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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In Other Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words around the Worldby C. J. MooreISBN 0192806246 (0-19-280624-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi: Etymologiarvm Sive Originvm, Libri XX Tomvs I, Libros I-X Continensby W.M. LindsayISBN 0198146191 (0-19-814619-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Joy of Words : Bedside Book for English Loversby Fritz SpieglISBN 0241117534 (0-241-11753-4)
Softcover, Elm Tree Books
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The King's Englishby F. G. Fowler, Henry Fowler, Matthew ParrisISBN 0198605072 (0-19-860507-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King's English'Book summary:In this classic reference book the Fowler brothers illustrate by example all the commonly-made blunders of English usage and guide the reader to improved expression and style. If Dickens had owned a copy of The King's English for example, he would not have written "your great ability and trustfulness;" he would have recognized the malapropism and realized that the context demanded trustworthiness.
Written with the good sense and liveliness that is characteristic of the Fowlers, this work has given generations of students, scholars, and professional writers the solutions to problems of grammar and style.
In print since its publication in 1906, this book is still an essential guide to written English and an ideal companion to Fowler's Modern English Usage. [via]More editions of The King's English:
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The King's English: An Essential Guide to Written Englishby F. G. Fowler, H. W. FowlerISBN 0198813309 (0-19-881330-9)
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The Labyrinth of Languageby Max BlackISBN 0269670343 (0-269-67034-3)
Hardcover, Pall Mall P.
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Mark My Words: Mark Twain on Writingby Mark Twain, Mark DawidziakISBN 0312143656 (0-312-14365-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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More Weird and Wonderful Wordsby Erin McKean, Danny Shanahan, Richard LedererISBN 0195170571 (0-19-517057-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Weird and Wonderful Words'Book summary:Wouldn't you like to use proctomorph in your everyday conversation--or at least feel as if you could? How about singerie? Or rememble?
Following the smash hit Weird and Wonderful Words, editor Erin McKean has dug deeper into forgotten corners of the dictionary gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than four hundred prime specimens (with pronunciations!), defined in a conversational style and perfect for adding to your own collection of favorites.
Guaranteed to amuse and astonish, accompanied by full-page illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan, these words will appeal to logophiles everywhere. In addition to its wonderful offerings, the book also features a guide to finding new words, a guide to the best word websites, and an annotated bibliography of essential Oxford dictionaries.
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anopisthograph: something that has writing on only one side (usually paper, although you could pedantically use this for things like t-shirts or billboards). Anopisthography is the practice of writing on only one side of something, a policy disdained by those who know how to make that 1-to-2 button on the copy machine work. (Opisthography is the practice of writing on both sides.) (from Greek words that mean "written on the back or cover.")
mesonoxian: of or related to midnight. "What are your mesonoxian plans?" sounds so much better on Dec. 31 than "Hey, whatcha doin' tonight?"
ichoglan: a page waiting in the palace of the Sultan. (from Turkish words that mean "interior" and "young man."). In this definition, 'waiting' obviously means 'serving,' but it's so much more poetic to understand it as 'to stay in expectation of.' What is he waiting FOR? Alas, the Sultan has fled, and we will never know.
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The Name of the Roseby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156001314 (0-15-600131-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Names for Thingsby John MacNamaraISBN 0262131692 (0-262-13169-2)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Names for Things: A Study in Human Learningby John MacNamaraISBN 0262630923 (0-262-63092-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The New Fowler's Modern English Usageby H. W. Fowler, R. W. BurchfieldISBN 0198602634 (0-19-860263-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Fowler's Modern English Usage'Book summary:First published in 1926, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is one of the most celebrated reference books of the twentieth century. Commonly known as "Fowler," after its inimitable author, H.W. Fowler, it has sold more than a million copies and maintained a devoted following over seven decades, in large part because of its charming blend of information and good humor, delivered in the voice of a genial if somewhat idiosyncratic schoolmaster. "Reading Fowler," William F. Buckley once noted, "provides instruction and knowledge and direction, but the whole of it is a sensual delight." And Jessica Mitford wrote that Fowler's style "has afforded me endless amusement and instruction through my very long life." The first place to turn for sensible advice on the thorny issues of grammar, meaning, and pronunciation, "Fowler" is one of those rare reference books that can also be read simply for pleasure.
Now this classic is available in a new edition--the first major revision since Fowler's original. Rewritten, updated, and expanded to take into account the vast linguistic changes of the past three-quarters of a century, here are thousands of alphabetically arranged entries, offering advice and background information on all aspects of the English language, from grammar to spelling to literary style. This masterful revision has been carried out by Robert Burchfield, hailed by The Chicago Tribune as "the greatest living lexicographer." In his hands, the MEU has retained its beloved traits--accessibility, authority, and (not least) personality--while acquiring new ones, most notably, up-to-the-minute currency. As in "Fowler," the new edition is a cornucopia of information on such troublesome areas as the plural form of foreign words (adagio, curriculum, memorandum, virus); related or like-sounding words (affect/effect, continual/continuous); rarely encountered literary terms (alcaics, alexandrine, arsis); and unusual inflected forms (for instance, taxi, taxis, taxiing). But there are also many innovations. Burchfield, who spent decades working on the Oxford English Dictionary, has introduced the OED's historical approach to the MEU, providing fascinating details on how and when new usages entered the language. In addition, he has combed novels, newspapers, and magazines to replenish the book's many illustrative sentences with new examples from the 1980s and 1990s, taken from such sources as The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and from such writers as Saul Bellow, John Updike, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Anita Brookner, and Penelope Lively. The new MEU also covers much more of the English-speaking world than did "Fowler"--including not only the United Kingdom and the United States, but also Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere--and pronunciation is now given in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with an easy-to-consult guide given across each double-page spread.
For seventy years, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage has supplied readers with information, guidance, and amusement. This major revision provides an MEU for the next century: a completely up-to-date work based on the immense databases of the Oxford English Dictionary, providing the same insightful, authoritative, and lively coverage that has long made "Fowler" a synonym for correct English. [via]More editions of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage:
New Words for Oldby Philip HowardISBN 019519988X (0-19-519988-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Oxford Dictionary of New Wordsby Julia Elliott, Elizabeth KnowlesISBN 0198602359 (0-19-860235-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oxford Dictionary of New Words'Book summary:The image of the linguist as a stodgy old stick-in-the-mud, circling misplaced commas and mumbling in dead tongues, is just not true--at least not entirely. Any linguist worth her salt knows that languages change and keeps up with those changes. To make that task easier, the folks at Oxford University Press have put out a dictionary of more than 2,500 new words and phrases that have been popularized since the late 1980s. Editors Elizabeth Knowles and Julia Elliott provide definitions, usage notes, and etymologies for jelly shoes, road rage, and hot-desking, not to mention tree-hugger, feminazi, McJob, get a life, and not! The English language is alive and kicking, and Oxford has its finger on the semantic pulse. [via]
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The Oxford Dictionary of New Words: A Popular Guide to Words in the Newsby Sara TullochISBN 0192830775 (0-19-283077-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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In The Oxford Dictionary of New Words, Sara Tulloch examines over two thousand new words and phrases that have become part of our daily lives in the last decade, in 750 articles that provide pronunciation, definition, etymology, informal history, and sample sentences. Drawing words from politics, the environmental movement, computers and technology, business, sports, entertainment, and many other areas, Tulloch goes beyond the usual informative but narrow dictionary entry to offer readers a rich history of the recent changes not only in our language but in our culture as well. Just skimming the headwords is like fast-forwarding through the eighties: bailout, cocooning, deniability, the disappeared, glasnost, lambada, safe sex, spin doctor, fun run, insider trading, genetic fingerprinting, thirtysomething, designer water, liposuction, Cablevision, gentrification, intifada, and DINK (Double Income, No Kids). And the histories that Tulloch provides are so interesting that even if you know the meaning of a word you will find the article fascinating. For instance, readers discover that the expression "Cowabunga," popularized most recently by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, dates back to the old "Howdy Doody Show" of the '50s; that "couch potato" was coined by Californian Tom Iacino (who also commends television-watching as "transcendental vegetation") and that the word "factoid" was coined by Norman Mailer in his book Marilyn; that the name of the Black South African party "Inkatha" comes from a Zulu word for a sacred head-ring believed to ensure solidarity; that the "cellular" in "cellular phone" refers to the small geographic sections or "cells" into which each operating area is divided; that "mouse" has been a computer term since 1965 and "mousse" has gone from dessert to hair styling product to the frothy oil-and-seawater mixture left behind oil spills; and that Lenin used the term "glasnost" to mean "freedom of information" half a century before Gorbachev did.
Here then is a resource that is both useful and intriguing, the first place to turn when faced with such new words and phrases as "acyclovir," "magnetic resonance imaging," "Alar" or "computer footprint," as well as a browser's delight, a goldmine of language for word lovers everywhere. [via]More editions of The Oxford Dictionary of New Words: A Popular Guide to Words in the News:
Oxford Dictionary of Catchprasesby Anna FarkasISBN 0198607350 (0-19-860735-0)
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The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionaryby R.E. Allen, Joyce HawkinsISBN 0198612664 (0-19-861266-4)
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The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary/Plain Editionby Joyce M. Hawkins, Robert E. Allen, R.E. AllenISBN 0198612486 (0-19-861248-6)
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The Oxford Modern English Dictionaryby Della ThompsonISBN 019860064X (0-19-860064-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Modern English Dictionary'Book summary:With over 187,000 definitions and entries in clear, current English, The Oxford Modern English Dictionary provides all the words and meanings you need on a day to day basis, along with substantial coverage of specialist, technical, and rare words. Its comprehensive range of additional features includes:
Over 5,700 new words, including alcoholic soft drink, boot camp, bull bar, golden handcuffs, Gulf War syndrome, road rage, and rollover jackpot
In-depth coverage of all English-speaking areas of the world, with clear labeling of regional varieties
Pronunciations given for difficult words using a simple respelling system
More than 400 authoritative usage notes explain controversial or confusing points of grammar and usage
Concise and useful information, avoiding technical terminology, on interesting aspects of word origins
21 Quick Reference appendices--including Countries of the World, Time Zones, Alphabets, the Zodiac, Math Symbols, Clothing Sizes, the Beaufort Scale, and Measurements--provide the sort of information you wouldn't normally expect to find in a dictionary of this size
With its clear definitions and thorough coverage, The Oxford Modern English Dictionary is the ideal dictionary to keep you up to date with today's English. [via]More editions of The Oxford Modern English Dictionary:
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A Passion for Booksby Dale SalwakISBN 0312218842 (0-312-21884-2)
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Place-Names of the Worldby Adrian RoomISBN 0207155399 (0-207-15539-9)
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current Englishby Della ThompsonISBN 0198600453 (0-19-860045-3)
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The Real Mccoy: Why We Say the Things We Sayby Georgia Hole, Sara HawkerISBN 0192806114 (0-19-280611-4)
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The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionaryby Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund WeinerISBN 0198610696 (0-19-861069-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:Tolkien's first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of the OED. He later said that he had "learned more in those two years than in any other equal part of his life." The Ring of Words reveals how his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary influenced Tolkien's creative use of language in his fictional world.
Here three senior editors of the OED offer an intriguing exploration of Tolkien's career as a lexicographer and illuminate his creativity as a word user and word creator. The centerpiece of the book is a wonderful collection of "word studies" which will delight the heart of Ring fans and word lovers everywhere. The editors look at the origin of such Tolkienesque words as "hobbit," "mithril, "Smeagol," "Ent," "halfling," and "worm" (meaning "dragon"). Readers discover that a word such as "mathom" (anything a hobbit had no immediate use for, but was unwilling to throw away) was actually common in Old English, but that "Mithril," on the other hand, is a complete invention (and the first "Elven" word to have an entry in the OED). And fans of Harry Potter will be surprised to find that "Dumbledore" (the name of Hogwart's headmaster) was a word used by Tolkien and many others (it is a dialect word meaning "bumblebee").
Few novelists have found so much of their creative inspiration in the shapes and histories of words. Presenting archival material not found anywhere else, The Ring of Words offers a fresh and unexplored angle on the literary achievements of one of the world's most famous and best-loved writers. [via]More editions of The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary:
Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Scienceby Martin GardnerISBN 019286047X (0-19-286047-X)
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Sanskrit-English Dictionaryby Monier Monier-WilliamsISBN 019864308X (0-19-864308-X)
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Shorter Oxford English Dictionaryby R. LittleISBN 0198611269 (0-19-861126-9)
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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principlesby William Little, H. W. Fowler, Jessie Senior Coulson, G. W. S. Friedrichsen, Charles Talbut OnionsISBN 0198611161 (0-19-861116-1)
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Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do With Pigs: And Other Fascinating Facts About the English Languageby Katherine BarberISBN 0143038125 (0-14-303812-5)
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Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexiconby Michael AdamsISBN 0195175999 (0-19-517599-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon'Book summary:In its seven years on television, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has earned critical acclaim and a massive cult following among teen viewers. One of the most distinguishing features of the program is the innovative way the show's writers play with language: fabricating new words, morphing existing ones, and throwing usage on its head. The result has been a strikingly resonant lexicon that reflects the power of both youth culture and television in the evolution of American slang. Using the show to illustrate how new slang is formed, transformed, and transmitted, Slayer Slang is one of those rare books that combines a serious explanation of a pop culture phenomena with an engrossing read for fans of the show, word geeks, and language professionals. Michael Adams begins his book with a synopsis of the program's history and a defense of ephemeral language. He then moves to the main body of the work: a detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with actual dialogue and recorded the style accepted by the American Dialect Society. The book concludes with a bibliography and a lengthy index, a guide to sources (novels based on the show, magazine articles about the show, and language culled from the official posting board) and an appendix of slang-making suffixes. Introduced by Jane Espenson, one of the show's most inventive writers (and herself a linguist), Slayer Slang offers a quintessential example of contemporary youth culture serving as a vehicle for slang.
In the tradition of The Physics of Star Trek, Slayer Slang is one of those rare books that offers a serious examination a TV cult phenomenon appealing to fans and thinkers alike.
A few examples from the Slayer Slang glossary:
bitca n [AHD4 bitch n in sense 2.a + a] Bitch 1997 Sep 15 Whedon When She Was Bad "[Willow:] 'I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?' [Giles:] 'Willow, I think we're all a little old to be spelling things out.' [Xander:] 'A bitca?'"
break and enterish adj [AHD4 sv breaking and entering n + -ish suff in sense 2.a] Suitable for crime 1999 Mar 16 Petrie Enemies "I'll go home and stock up on weapons, slip into something a little more break and enterish." [B]
carbon-dated adj [fr. AHD4 carbondating + -ed] Very out of date 1997 Mar 10 Whedon Welcome to the Hellmouth "[Buffy:] 'Deal with that outfit for a moment.' [Giles:] 'It's dated?' [Buffy:] 'It's carbon-dated.'"
cuddle-monkey n [AHD4 cuddle v + monkey n in sense 2, by analogy fr. RHHDAS (also DAS3 and NTC) sv cuddle bunny 'an affectionate, passionate, or sexually attractive young woman'] Male lover 1998 Feb 10 Noxon Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered "Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey." [X] [via]More editions of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon:
Verbatim: From the Bawdy to the Sublime, the Best Writing on Language for Word Lovers, Grammar Mavens, and Armchair Linguistsby Erin McKeanISBN 015601209X (0-15-601209-X)
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Weird and Wonderful Wordsby Roz Chast, Erin McKean, Simon WinchesterISBN 0195159055 (0-19-515905-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weird and Wonderful Words'Book summary:Do you know what a snollygoster is? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. Tie your tongue in knots trying to say such sesquipedalian words as floccinaucinihilipilification or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Weird and Wonderful Words.
Weird and Wonderful Words is a potpourri--a gallimaufry--a salmagundi--a collection of colorful and strange words. Compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, the book contains hundreds of definitions written in a clear and conversational style accompanied by full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
Smart and funny and with just a touch of whimsy, Weird and Wonderful Words is the perfect book for reading in your sitooterie with a bumbo in your hand while mavises sing in your earor something like that.
A sampling of Weird and Wonderful Words:
*Autochthon: a human being born from the soil where he or she lives (like the Biblical Adam). Also used as a synonym for aborigine, it comes from a Greek word meaning sprung from that land itself.
*Camorra: a secret society, usually one breaking the law. This word comes from the name of group that was active in Naples in the nineteenth century.
*Snollygoster: a dishonest politician, especially a shrewd or calculating one. A connection has been proposed between this word and snallygaster, a mythical monster of Maryland, invented to frighten freed slaves. However, the first evidence for snallygaster follows snollygoster by about a hundred years, making a connection (in this direction, at least) unlikely.
*Tigon: the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a lioness. A liger is the offspring produced by a male lion and a tigress. [via]More editions of Weird and Wonderful Words:
Who's Who in the Classical Worldby Simon Hornblower, Antony SpawforthISBN 0192801074 (0-19-280107-4)
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Winged Wordsby Philip HowardISBN 019520770X (0-19-520770-X)
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The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable About American Englishby McWhorter John H.ISBN 0306459949 (0-306-45994-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable About American English'Book summary:A Berkeley linguistics professor with a common touch, John McWhorter successfully scales the ivy-covered walls of academe to bring linguistics to the masses. He has reached out in the past, appearing on the Today Show, Dateline NBC, and National Public Radio, and publishing essays in Newsweek and the New York Times. The Word on the Street provides another forum for his sometimes controversial but ultimately sane examination of the English language as it lives and breathes. Deploring the intimidating jargon and snooty 'tudes of the linguistics field, McWhorter tackles some of the major misconceptions about our nation's language, and does so in an immediately engaging and entertaining fashion.
He offers some valuable linguistic insights: that language is forever changing, that new patterns that sound "sloppy" or "incorrect" may be in fact on their way to becoming "proper," and that any language is a bundle of dialects, none of which is superior to any other. His book delves into these issues with academically rigorous logic and accessible, delightful flair. He compares the Lord's Prayer in Old English to its modern version, and looks at linguistic issues from past centuries that made the language monitors of the day swear that English was going to hell in a handbasket (such as the "barbarous custom of abbreviating words," so that a word like "rebuked" was pronounced as one syllable instead of "rebuk-èd," considered proper at the time). He discusses schoolmarm English (and the great hoax that it represents), Shakespeare (and why his plays might be more enjoyable translated into modern English), the search for a gender-neutral pronoun (and why "they" as third-person singular is "good" English), then takes on America's most controversial dialect, Black English (and why, though it is a systematic dialect and a national treasure, teaching it to black schoolchildren doesn't make sense). Extremely readable, astute, and timely, McHorter's assessment of today's American English is that literary rarity: a book that's essential to read and hard to put down. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others Who Care About Wordsby John B. BremnerISBN 0231044933 (0-231-04493-3)
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Zounds!: A Browser's Dictionary Of Interjectionsby Sergio Aragones, Mark DunnISBN 0312330804 (0-312-33080-4)
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Cassell's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrasesby Adrian RoomISBN 0304357669 (0-304-35766-9)
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