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The Aryan Origin of the Alphabet: Disclosing the Sumero Phoenician Parentage of Our Letters Ancient and Modern
by L. Austine Waddell  Publisher Comments 1927. Contents: Ancestry of the Alphabets re The Phoenicians; Alphabetic Letters in Pre-Dynastic and Early-Dynastic Egypt and Theories Thereon; How the Sumerian Origin of the Alphabet was Discovered; The Alphabetic Vowel and Consonantal Signs in Sumerian...
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Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings #37: Linguistic Diversity in the South: Changing Codes, Practices, and Ideology
by Margaret Bender Publisher Comments This volume brings together work by linguists and linguistic anthropologists not only on southern varieties of English, but also on other languages spoken in the region. The contributors, who often draw from their own involvement in language maintenance...
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Logodaedalian's Dictionary of Interesting & Unusual Words
by George Stone Saussy Book News Annotation Reprint of the 1984 Oxter English Dictionary, with a substantial appendix of newer words. Literary words are defined and used in context from the fiction of best-selling and less-selling writers published from 1945 to the present. Over 1300 words are...
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Look at Me! (First Words)
by Pam Scheunemann Publisher Comments - Full-color Photographs<BR>- Picture Word Index<BR>- More Sight Word List<BR>- Similar Objects and Topics<BR>- Use of High Frequency Words<BR>- Simple Punctuation<BR>- Supports Language Arts Learner...
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British English A to Zed (Writers Reference)
by Norman W Schur Publisher Comments General readers and language lovers alike will have immediate access to an alphabetical listing of more than 5,500 "Briticisms" and their correlating "Americanisms" in this fully revised and updated volume. Featured in this new edition are several...
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Writer's Resources: From Paragraph to Essay
by Julie And Robert Connelly Robitaille Publisher Comments The best way to learn to write well is through the use of clear examples and abundant practice. WRITER'S RESOURCES: FROM PARAGRAPH TO ESSAY helps develop students' confidence and skills as writers by presenting concepts in simple, clear fashion, and...
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Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language
by Kate Burridge Publisher Comments Kate Burridge provides an entertaining look at ???unacceptable??? words, phrases and pronunciations in English....
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The Life of Language: The Fascinating Ways Words Are Born, Live & Die
by Sol And Barbara Ann Kipfer Steinmetz Publisher Comments In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps. This word lover's guide to...
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If You Were a Compound Word (Word Fun)
by Trisha Speed Shaskan Synopsis Reading and Content Advisers/Activity/Glossary At the Library/Index/Book List/Safe Web sites at www.FactHound.com Standards for the English Language Arts Standards 3 and 6 Quizzes at www.picturewindowbooks...
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Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties
by Carol Myers Scotton Publisher Comments This collection of essays considers how messages of intentionality are conveyed by choosing one style of English over another. While these choices are not necessarily conscious, implicit in the communicative competence of a speaker, performer, or writer...
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By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English
by David Crystal Synopsis In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers....
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My Brother, My Sister (First Words)
by Kelly Doudna Publisher Comments - Full-color Photographs<BR>- Picture Word Index<BR>- More Sight Word List<BR>- Similar Objects and Topics<BR>- Use of High Frequency Words<BR>- Simple Punctuation<BR>- Supports Language Arts Learner...
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The Functional Analysis of English
by Thomas Bloor Publisher Comments This book presents the principles of a Hallidayan approach to language studies, and introduces a set of techniques for the grammatical analysis of English. It includes an overview of the applications of functional grammar that demonstrates the practical...
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Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment
by David Crystal Publisher Comments A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow....
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Superior Persons Second Book
by Peter Bowler Publisher Comments The Superior Person's Book of Words (over 100,000 hardcover copies in print). In the words of the author, "The format and the objectives are the same as before. I wish to equip the person in the street with new and better verbal weapons". Features 600...
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The English Language: a Historical Introduction
by Charles Barber Publisher Comments '\'A textbook survey of the English language, introducing the theoretical and technical concepts of historical linguistics.\''...
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Scots: The Mither Tongue
by Billy Kay Publisher Comments In this revised edition of a classic of contemporary Scottish culture, Billy Kay vigorously renews the social, cultural, and political debate on Scotland's linguistic future. He compares Scottish with other European lesser-used languages, and celebrates...
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Word-formation in English
by Ingo Plag Publisher Comments This book is an introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior...
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History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets Part 1
by Isaac Taylor Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2. Semitic Alphabets. An account of the origin and development of letters. The writing of these volume was undertaken with the intention of compiling a brief account of recent discoveries as to the origin of the alphabet, and its subsequent...
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Feminism and Linguistic Theory, Second Edition
by Deborah Cameron Publisher Comments Feminism, as a movement for social change, has always recognized the significance of language in both theory and practice. In the new feminist scholarship of the past two decades, theories about language have played an important part in attempts to...
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