Linguistics
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Ostler, Nicholas [Ostler, Nicholas]

Suns can set and can come back again: For us when once the short light has set There is one night perpetual to be slept. Catullus * See Chapter 13. ...
( Category: Linguistics March 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Gooden, Philip [Gooden, Philip]

These, and countless others, were the books taken up by the expanding middle classes. The flourishing printing presses, which fed the appetite for reading by turning out not only novels ...
( Category: Linguistics March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

She fed the old hen. The cow was in the lot. She has a new hat. He sits on a tin box. Spelling began early, simply, at school, through Noah ...
( Category: Linguistics March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Leo Rosten

Pronounced MOTT-seh (not MOTT-so), to rhyme with “lotsa.” Hebrew: The plural in Hebrew is matzot, pronounced MOTT-sez in Yiddish. Unleavened bread (it comes in thin, flat, ridgy oblongs and is ...
( Category: Etymology March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-02-28 | Author:Plato

Impossible, he replied. She is held fast by the corporeal, which the continual association and constant care of the body have wrought into her nature. Very true. And this corporeal ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-11-30 | Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley [Shelley, Percy Bysshe]

( Category: Linguistics February 15,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Noah Lukeman [Lukeman, Noah]

and this eventually evolved into the modern-day paragraph break, which is, of course, indicated today by only a line break and indentation. The indentation we use today was originally there ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Harry Harrison

"I do not worry about it," Mikah broke in, overhearing the remark. "But I do think about it once in a while. It is a problem that cannot be lightly ...
( Category: Linguistics February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Harry Harrison

Chance put Jason near the man in the open doorway, yet everyone else seemed to get there first. The man leaped back with a hoarse cry, trying to close the ...
( Category: Linguistics February 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-28 | Author:Crystal, David [Crystal, David]

Education It follows from what has been said in this chapter that English is the medium of a great deal of the world’s knowledge, especially in such areas as science ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies February 2,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-15 | Author:Henry Handel Richardson

XIV ‘My cousin Bob’s awfully gone on you.’ . Laura gaped at Tilly, in crimson disbelief. ‘But I’ve never spoken to him!’ ‘Doesn’t count. He’s seen you in church.’ ‘Go ...
( Category: British & Irish January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Alfred Ollivant

CHAPTER 17 A Mad Dog DAVID and Maggie, meanwhile, were drifting farther and farther apart. He now thought the girl took too much responsibility for the household; that she went ...
( Category: Linguistics January 29,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:George Lakoff [Lakoff, George]

Liberals regularly propose measures set within classical liberal economic theory: raising the minimum wage, massive programs for rebuilding infrastructure, better safety nets, early childhood education and better education in general, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

Chapter XXXVI. How D'Artagnan drew, as a Fairy would have done, a Country–Seat from a Deal Box. The king's words regarding the wounded pride of Monk had inspired D'Artagnan with ...
( Category: French January 27,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Westerhoff, Jan [Westerhoff, Jan]

3.2.3. The Epistemic Instruments as Self-established [40-41] 40. If the epistemic instruments are self-established, the epistemic objects will be independent of the establishment of the epistemic instruments for you, for ...
( Category: Linguistics January 22,2015 )