Master medical terms on your terms! A combination text/workbook, Exploring Medical Language: A Student-Directed Approach, Twelfth Edition, provides exercises that make it easy to build an understanding of medical terminology. Org...Daugiau...
Travel through time with words that have shaped the trajectory of the English language across centuries. The world of books has played a striking role in the history of English vocabulary. Book itself is one of the oldest words in...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399500227)
A lively introduction to English spelling. Popularly viewed as eccentric and illogical, dismissed by linguists as fixed and therefore uninteresting, English spelling is the Cinderella of modern linguistics. But it is a complex and fascinat...Daugiau...
Popularly viewed as eccentric and illogical, dismissed by linguists as fixed and therefore uninteresting, English spelling is the Cinderella of modern linguistics. But it is a complex and fascinating subject. With a rich history of variation, Engl...Daugiau...
The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. Its where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snipp...Daugiau...
Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare explores the power of names in Shakespeares works, focusing on Irish, Scottish, and Welsh characters and places. It explores who chooses names, why, and how they affect playgoers and readers. This Element offers a co...Daugiau...
First published in 1971 The London that was Rome is both a detective story and a tale of buried treasure. With New Archaeology the author has not only recovered the street plan of Roman London, but also replaced the buildings-temples, bar...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300264050)
An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of...Daugiau...
A revelatory read to reorientate your life, Consolations II deepens David Whytes exploration of all facets of our world through the prism of everyday words and invites reader to think more deeply about the choices that influence our lives...Daugiau...
As the nights draw in and the cold descends, the winter world emerges and with it an incredible array of words that superbly capture the season.From frost-dogs (tiny frozen particles of falling snow) and Stepmother s breat...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: words & pictures, ISBN-13: 9780711291638)
Wonderful Words to Tell a Tale is a treasure-trove of stories within stories within stories, all rooted in the fascinating history of where our language came from....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Sep-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631906200)
This Dictionary is the first etymological dictionary of English imitative (onomato-poeic, mimetic) words. Imitative words (e.g. crash, bang, achoo) are words with iconic correlation between form and meaning, iconicity being a...Daugiau...
Lost origins of words revealed. We like to recount that goodbye started out as god be with you, that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for water of life, or that avocado originated as the Aztec word for testicle. But there are many words with orig...Daugiau...
The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. Its where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unceremoniously back together with misunderstood snipp...Daugiau...
Transported to Paris armed with the AEB (Awesome Enchanted Book), Eddie and Molly race around France in search of a cat burglar known as The Ballerina while learning the hidden stories behind common words. Simultaneous and eBook. A...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Nov-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Thomas Nelson Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781400337972)
Why are spectacularly successful movies called blockbusters? Why does putting your best foot forward mean you hope to make a good impression? Why is rowdy and prankish behavior called horseplay and what does it have to do with the rarity...Daugiau...
