Dictionaries

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980102574Author Diane M FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 630Imprint I.M.PressPublisher I.M.PressWeight(grams) 191g

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Between 1604, when Cawdrey published his Table Alphabeticall, and 1755, the year of Johnson's monumental work, there appeared no less than twenty English dictionaries. In this book the authors provide a complete history, as far as possible, of each of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983038115Author Diane M FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint I.M.PressPublisher I.M.PressWeight(grams) 853g

The vocabulary of Texas, and of the Southwest, has a character that sets it apart from all others. It is to some extent an amalgamation of words brought from other sections. A more important ingredient, however, has been a large group of words that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071841382Author SpearsFormat HardbackImprint McGraw-HillPublisher McGraw-HillWeight(grams) 513g

A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic lists (from English into Nigerian Arabic) approximately 6,000 lexemes with some illustrative sentences. The dictionary gives evidence of a dialect change in a diachronic span of nearly 50 years; this particular dialect...

This is a companion volume to the same author's A Dictionary of Nigerian Arabic. It lists the approximately 6,000 lexemes with some illustrative sentences alphabetically, from Arabic to English, using the same transcription as the previous work. This...

In the mid-1970s, Sm'algyax, the language of the Coast Tsimshian people, came under the protection of Canada's Urgent Ethnology Programme, which commissioned a dictionary by linguist John Dunn. With the help of many Tsimshian consultants, Dunn completed...

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This dictionary is the first work devoted to translating solely technical terms and expressions of the statistical sciences from Russian to English and, as such, is invaluable to those interested in utilizing Russian literature not available in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743275262Author Dr Ruth WajnrybFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 19mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980102536Author Diane M FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint I.M.PressPublisher I.M.PressWeight(grams) 1102gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 29mm

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the number of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias grew from a trickle to a flood, while the number of disciplines they were devoted to grew from a handful to dozens, representing many varieties of...

John Gould's family first settled in Maine in 1618, so by the time he came along in the early 20th century, the Gould's were well steeped in the vernacular of the region, and his first inheritance was the turned-around, honed-down, and tuned-up language...

With the help of elders, educators, and tribal councils of the Klallam Tribes at Elwha, Port Gamble, and Jamestown, Washington, and Becher Bay on Vancouver Island, Timothy Montler has compiled a comprehensive dictionary of the Klallam language. It...

This is the first history of dictionaries of English for foreign learners from their origins in Japan and East Asa in the 1920s, to the computerized compilations of the present. Monolingual dictionaries for foreign speakers were a revolutionary...

Early Modern English Lexicography presents for the first time a census of printed monolingual glossaries and dictionaries published from 1475 to 1640, together with a systematic bibliographical description of these works. The lemmatical material is...

From the Anglo-Saxons to the end of the Tudor era, many English glossaries and dictionaries were arranged topically rather than alphabetically and thus reflected the prevailing concerns of theology, philosophy, and natural history. These works are a...

For blurb see Vol I: 8128479Reviews'The scholarship here is impeccable ... the entries in this volume are rare and esoteric, so the volume itself would be an essential purchase only for those libraries that support PhD programs in linguistics or the...

History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making...

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This dictionary deals with the little words which everyone uses every day without even noticing them and which are so liable to escape the grasp of a speaker of another language - clipped words, obtained by back-clipping or apocope (the dropping of one...

Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of...

R. A. Steindler was researching a book about guns when he realized that many gun terms were used differently by various writers and sometimes included conflicting definitions, errors, and misconceptions. To fill an obvious need for one consistent...

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This compact English-French glossary, a new concept in dictionaries, is an indispensable guide to the understanding and use of contemporary French lexis and idiom. Conscious of the dryness of many technical and specialized dictionaries, and building...

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The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806529240Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...