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2015.
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English
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Finally there's a word for it: Fidgital -excessively checking one's devices. Martyrmony -staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular “That Should Be a Word” feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick's wittiest wordplays-more than half of them new-arranged in ingenious diagrams...
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English
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From angst to zydeco, the ultimate guide to foreign terms and phrases.
This handy, practical, and browsable A-to-Z reference tells you all you need to know to understand, pronounce, and appreciate the nearly 2,000 foreign words and phrases commonly used by speakers and writers of English. The Browser's Dictionary covers a wide variety of subject areas and includes loan-words from more than sixty languages around the world, such as: Latin (desideratum)...
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Learning new words is fun! Children astound us with their ability to learn new words. Spark their imaginations and watch them light up with My First 1000 Words. Features:
- A point-and-say book for the pre-reader
- A terrific vocabulary builder for the early reader
- Filled with fun categories, fabulous pictures, and fantastic sample sentences
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English
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"The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct-or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just plain wrong. Whether you consider yourself a stickler,...
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