books about: etymology     books:     Etymology      Sparkle and Spin: A Book About Words Ann Rand, Paul Rand Chronicle Books, 2006 One of the Best Ever I grew up with this book in the 60s. It was originally published in 1957 -- which shows how incredibly cutting-edge this mid-century modern book was. Through the years later the lessons of the book about language and imagery remained in my mind, and as an adult I ...             Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English John McWhorter Gotham, 2008 "A Revisionist History of English" Linguist John McWhorter in his latest work advances a very well argued contrarian view of the development of the English language. The prevailing conventional view is that changes in English over time principally involve just the addition of new words from Latin, ...             Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages Ammon Shea Perigee Trade, 2008 reading the oed This is a great book not only for those who love their dictionaries or own an OED, which seem to be the people who have reviewed this book so far. I neither love my dictionary** I own my mom's from high-school and i read it to fall asleep** nor do i own a single volume ...             Red Herrings and White Elephants: The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day Albert Jack HarperCollins, 2006 So that's where that saying comes from I find these stories about expressions we use, like giving someone the whole nine yards, absolutely fascinating, and this book has hundreds of them, usefully organized. I even like paging through it for fifteen minutes before going to sleep, like having bite sized ...             A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare Jeremy Butterfield Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 When James Murray compiled the OED in the 19th century, he used a small army of volunteers--and thousands upon thousands of paper slips--to track down the English language. Today, linguists use massive computer power--including the world's largest language databank, the Oxford Corpus, which contains more than two billion words--to determine for ...             Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, ... Roy Blount Jr. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 A joy for the word lover One of my great pleasures is listening to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" on NPR each week. Many of the panelists and guests are very clever and funny, but Roy Blount Jr. adds a deep gravitas to his humorous contributions. Much of that gravitas comes from his deep baritone ...             Words Their Way: Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, ... Prentice Hall, 2005 A MUST for K-2 teachers. Like the other Words their Way materials, this volume continues the wonderful tradition of combining excellent teaching ideas with the black line masters so you can use the strategies immediately. This level is especially appropriate for students learning ...             The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English Henry Hitchings Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Words & Wit & Wisdom Many self-confessed bibliomaniacs and word junkies first discovered Henry Hitchings on the publication of his first book, a creative look at Samuel Johnson and his great Dictionary, some two years ago. Now Hitchings delivers a second book targeted at the same crowd, ...             100 Words To Make You Sound Smart (100 Words) Houghton Mifflin, 2006 Gateway to Learning HUGE Words I recently got this book at my elementary school's book fair, and I was sucked into it immediately. I love to learn big words and impress my peers. I also adore writing, and now that I have this book, I can use the vocabulary in my stories. My dream is to be in the ...             I Didn't Know That: From "Ants in the Pants" to "Wet Behind the Ears"--the Unusual Origins of the Things We ... Karlen Evins Scribner, 2007 Great gift What a great gift! I set it out on the living room table and what a conversation starter. I loved it so much, I gave it out as gifts during the Holidays. What a hit!!!             Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin Nicholas Ostler Walker & Company, 2008 Companion of Empire In 1492 Elio Antonio de Nebrija (the author of the Latin grammar most priests used to teach Latin in the "New" World) wrote that "always language was the companion of empire and followed it in such a way that jointly they began, grew, flourished; and afterward joint ...             Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror Mayfield Publishing Company, 1960 great teaching aid I bought this to help students with biology vocabulary words on the high school level. It is fun to look up word parts. I hope it is helpful to the students to get familiar with the meanings of the different words parts.             Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Very Useful I think this dictionary is useful for one to whom English is as a second language. It contains wealthy information on how to combine words well.             Grammar in Use Intermediate With answers: Self-study Reference and Practice for Students of English (Grammar ... Raymond Murphy, William R. Smalzer Cambridge University Press, 2000 Great book for learning grammar as a foreign native My children studied the basic version of Grammar in Use. As non-English speaking family, I am happy that our children are enrolled in GT classes or in a Magnet school. They have gotten 'A's in Reading and/or English. Now they are learning this version. Well organized ...             In a Word: 750 Words and Their Fascinating Stories and Origins Rosalie Baker Cricket Books, 2003 A fun read, interesting This book is fun to read. It has lots of interesting historical info. 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