Author: William SmithPublisher: Chambers
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Latin-English dictionary that features grammer, root words, and names of people and places.
Author: W. SMITHCaught in the Web of Words
Author: Katherine Maud Elisabeth MurrayPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300089196
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. "It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth." --Anthony Burgess "A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." --Times (London) "A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself--grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." --Time "In her vivid biography, Murray's granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED's long and difficult birth." --Times Literary Supplement "A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked." --Sunday Times (London)
Collins Gem Latin Dictionary
Author: HarperCollins PublishersPublisher: Collins Reference
ISBN: 9780004707631
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
With over 60,000 references and 80,000 translations, this new edition of Collins Gem Latin Dictionary provides extensive coverage of Latin and English and offers in–depth treatment of all the vocabulary students need to take them through their exams. Extensive coverage of exam vocabulary Clear, attractive typography for quick and easy access
Author: William Chambers
Author: Penny HandsChambers Slang Dictionary
Author: Jonathon GreenPublisher: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
ISBN: 9780550105639
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A scholarly reference to slang expressions from all parts of the English-speaking world includes coverage of twenty-first-century terms and lists explanations of word origins.
Author: John Sinclair
Author: Women and Dictionary-Making
Author: Lindsay Rose RussellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316953548
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.
