Author: JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Author: Samuel Johnson
Author: Richard Lederer
Author: Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe Dictionary of Bull****
Author: Catriona GreenwoodPublisher: Castle Books
ISBN: 9781845297671
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You are not alone. Nearly 80% of office workers have admitted that they often simply don’t know what their colleagues are talking about. If you are one of them, help is at hand!
Author: Samuel JohnsonA Book of Middle English
Author: J. A. BurrowPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118697359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects. Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.
Dictionary of Early English
Author: Joseph T. ShipleyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442233990
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
An alphabetical discussion of words from early English authors, including the most interesting, informative—and revivable—English words that have lapsed from general use. Includes: 1) Words likely to be met in literary reading. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, the Tudor pamphlets and translations, are richly represented in words and illustrative quotations. The late 18th and early 19th century revival has been culled: Chatterton, Ossian; Percy’s Reliques and Child’s Ballads; Scott, in his effort to bring picturesque words back into use. In addition, anthologies, for the general reader or the student, have been examined, and works they include combed for forgotten words. 2) Words that belong to the history of early England, describing or illuminating social conditions, political (e.g. feudal) divisions or distinctions, and all the ways of living, of thinking and feeling, in earlier times. Anxiety, for example, is indicated, not in the 99 phobias listed in a psychiatric glossary of the 1950s but in the 120 methods (see areomancy) of determining the future. 3) Words that in various ways have special interest, as in meaning, background, or associated folklore. Included in this group are various imaginary beings, and a number of magic or medicinal plants. 4) Words that are not in the general vocabulary today, but might be usefully and pleasantly revived.
Author: Miguel Leon-Portilla