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Satisdiction
One Man's Journey Into All The Words He'll Ever Need
Av Ammon Shea
E-bok, 2010
108 kr
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Ammon Shea was ten when he first discovered the joy of reading a dictionary rather than using it to look a word up. Little did he imagine that one day he would spend over $1,000 and sacrifice an entire bookcase and a whole year to the twenty volumes that make up the king of all reference books: The …
Reading the Oxford English Dictionary
One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Av Ammon Shea
E-bok, 2008
170 kr
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'If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on. I have read the OED so you don't have to...' Weighing in at 137 pounds, the Oxford English Dictionary is the word lover's Everest and the world's most exhaustive and exhausting dictionary - for …
Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
Av Auburn, Armantrout m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
587 kr
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Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative guide to selecting and using vocabulary. This essential guide for writers provides real-life example sentences and a careful selection of the most relevant synonyms, …
Phone Book
The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses but No One Reads
Av Ammon Shea
Häftad, 2010
293 kr
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Phone Book
The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
Av Ammon Shea
E-bok, 2010
185 kr
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Read Ammon Shea''s blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. A surprising, lively, and rich history of that ubiquitous doorstop that most of us take for granted. Ammon Shea is not your typical thirtysomething book enthusiast. After reading the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover …
Bad English
A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Av Ammon Shea
E-bok, 2014
177 kr
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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 …
Reading the OED
One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Av Ammon Shea
E-bok, 2008
147 kr
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An obsessive word lover''s account of reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary , hailed as "the Super Size Me of lexicography." "I''m reading the OED so you don''t have to," says Ammon Shea on his slightly masochistic journey to scale the word lover''s Mount Everest: the Oxford English …
