You may be what you eat, but you're also what you speak, and English food words tell a remarkable story about the evolution of our language and culinary history, revealing a vital collision of cultures alive and well from the time Caesar first arrived on British shores to the present day. Words to Eat By explores the remarkable stories behind five of our most basic food words, words which reveal fascinating aspects of the evolution of the English...

"A party of jays, a parade of elephants, a stench of skunks, and so many more make up this delightfully funny and informative picture book about animal group names! Packed with vibrant art, young readers will not only learn what we call certain groups of animals, but it will tickle them with literal images. That party of jays? Those birds have party hats and streamers galore!"--

Alphabetically-arranged entries define more than 2,000 literary terms and explain their meaning with quotations and illustrations from world literature of the past and present.

Captioned illustrations and Spanish and English text describe things found in a house.

Contains a collection of linguistic observations in which Geoffrey Nunberg reflects on how the language of America is changing at the dawn of the twenty-first century, and how those changes reflect changes in American culture.

A wide-ranging compendium of all the exotic, pretty, blunt and sometimes very strange terms we use to describe our sexual parts and the interesting things we like to do with them. A resource for writers of romance and erotica.