Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Word Nerd Word Nerd Barbara Ann Kipfer vi, 570 p. : 22 cm OL15059552W
Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II (D-H) Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II (D-H) Joan Houston Hall A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.… OL16503694W
The Words You Should Know To Sound Smart 1200 Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should Be … The Words You Should Know To Sound Smart 1200 Essential Words Every Sophisticated Person Should Be … Robert W. Bly ix, 245 p. ; 22 cm OL17484999W
The disheveled dictionary The disheveled dictionary Karen Elizabeth Gordon The Disheveled Dictionary takes a voluptuary's approach to language, carousing in a wanton world of words and their multiple and mischievous uses. Favorite characters from earlier books appear in cam… OL1822423W
Look it up Look it up Rudolf Flesch Clarifies questions of spelling, capitalization, hyphenation, verb forms, and usage for some eighteen thousand alphabetically arranged entries, discussing compounding, italics, expressions to be avoi… OL18830373W
Words you should know in high school Words you should know in high school Burton Jay Nadler This easy-to-use book features more than 1,000 essential words that arm you with the vocabulary you'll need to tackle real-world tasks-from debating current events to writing essays for your college … OL1954843W
A glossary of literary terms A glossary of literary terms M. H. Abrams A series of brief essays defining and illustrating literary terms in alphabetical sequence. OL2026384W
Keywords Keywords Raymond Williams Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book by the Welsh Marxist academic Raymond Williams published in 1976 by Croom Helm. Originally intended to be published along with the author's … OL260934W
A Cure For The Common Word A Cure For The Common Word K. D. Sullivan Make your ailing vocabulary go from merely good to exceptionally splendid and stupendous! Your brain holds an impressive vocabulary of more than 20,000 words, but chances are you only use a small fr… OL3244029W
Anagram Solver Anagram Solver John Daintith Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. OL3944307W
The Devil's Dictionary The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title T… OL7973273W