Words, Language & Grammar
mobi |ru | 2009-12-10 | Author:Brian Macarthur

HENRY CLAY 5 February 1850 ‘The dove of peace’ Henry Clay (1777–1852) became known as the Great Pacificator when he steered through Congress the Missouri Compromise in 1820, dividing new ...
( Category: Public Speaking February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Elizabeth Alexander

Seventeen May ends with my fiftieth birthday. I’d wanted to have a joint birthday party with Ficre, a hundredth-birthday party. In our New Haven neighborhood filled with old houses and ...
( Category: Authors February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Leonard Shlain

*A recurring choice among a diverse range of cultures was the bear. †The senators who conspired to assassinate Julius Caesar agreed to strike simultaneously. For the same reasons, firing squads ...
( Category: Feminist Theory February 24,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2002-06-25 | Author:Stephen King [King, Stephen]

You can read anywhere, almost, but when it comes to writing, library carrels, park benches, and rented flats should be courts of last resort—Truman Capote said he did his best ...
( Category: Modern February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:unknow

PETE DOCTER Ink DANIEL ARRIAGA BERT BERRY RALPH EGGLESTON TONY FUCILE TOM GATELY ALBERT LOZANO MATT NOLTE CHRIS SASAKI Surprisingly, Disgust was the most difficult Emotion to design. PETE DOCTER ...
( Category: Manga February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:Sol Steinmetz [Steinmetz, Sol]

1957 ahistorical, arborvirus, backgrounder, barfy, bleep (v.), cheongsam, Chinglish, cistron, cite (n.), colonoscope, colonoscopy, computer scientist, endsville, enterovirus, ethnolinguist, eukaryon, free-range (v.), Frisbee, halothane, hoisin (sauce), the Holocaust, insensitivity, interferon, ...
( Category: Social Sciences February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Richard Campbell & Cheryl Svensson [Campbell, Richard]

Write a short paragraph about your “dream job.” We’ve all been asked as children, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Think back to your childhood dreams ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Guy Deutscher [Deutscher, Guy]

In fact, using the evidence from such verbs in various Cushitic languages, linguists have come to the conclusion that in the ancestor language of Cushitic (and perhaps of other Afro-Asiatic ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-26 | Author:Knowles, Elizabeth [Knowles, Elizabeth]

The line, and its association with Garbo, was clearly well-known by 1930. In that year, the humorous writers W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman published Garden Rubbish. The punning ...
( Category: Reference February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Neala Shane

MALE NAMES A AARON [AYR-on] MEANING: teaching, singing, shining, mountain, exalted one • USAGE: English form of Aharon, from Hebrew aharon A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where ...
( Category: Reference February 24,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Ed Swick

Come You’re already familiar with this verb of motion that means “to approach, to move toward, or to arrive.” Its conjugation is irregular and has these principal parts: Four distinct ...
( Category: Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses February 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Damico & Barbarito

( Category: Diagnosis January 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-26 | Author:John Simpson

I’m sorry to say that that Cham was where our ingenuity ended as regards appropriate catchwords for each volume. Volume Four of the Second Edition of the OED started with ...
( Category: Lexicography January 8,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Frank L. Cioffi [Cioffi, Frank L.]

Chapter 4 Punctuation, Part I—The Comma: Promiscuous Uses Introduction: Punctuation Substitutes for Oral Emphases, Facial Expressions, and Body Language When people speak, they consciously and subconsciously use an arsenal of ...
( Category: Fiction December 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Engels

Blood Libel and Imagined Insults: Neoliberalism’s Violent Rhetoric Vigorous and spirited public debates during elections are among our most cherished traditions. And after the election, we shake hands and get ...
( Category: Civics & Citizenship December 3,2016 )