Word Parts Dictionary

A Word for Dictionaries

✍ C. Douglas McGee 📂 Article 📅 1960 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 493 KB

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Diction

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

✍ Stamper, Kory 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB

**Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made --a must read for word mavens.** While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irr

Word by word: the secret life of Diction

Word by word: the secret life of Dictionaries

✍ Kory Stamper 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books 🌐 en-US ⚖ 324 KB 👁 3 views

**Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made --a must read for word mavens.** While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irr

One-Letter Words, a Dictionary

✍ Conley, Craig 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Harper Collins 🌐 English ⚖ 488 KB

Merriam-Webster, move over!Until now, no English dictionary ever found the fun or the fascination in revealing the meanings of letters. One-Letter Words, a Dictionary illuminates the more than 1,000 surprising definitions associated with each letter in the English alphabet. For instance, Conley unco

The Dictionary of Lost Words

✍ Pip Williams 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Affirm Press 🌐 English ⚖ 458 KB 👁 3 views

In The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams combines her talent for historical research with beautiful storytelling. She has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary and found a tale of missing words and the lives of women lived between the lines. In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' wa

One-letter words: a dictionary

✍ Conley, Craig 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2005 🏛 Perfectbound 🌐 English ⚖ 186 KB 👁 2 views