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The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words by Anu Garg
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Anu Garg [Garg, Anu]

Not to spread too much negativity, here are a few words with positive meanings. Then again, you could use them in insults, too, as in telling someone, “You aren’t exactly ...
( Category: Vocabulary December 29,2014 )
Totally Weird and Wonderful Words by McKean Erin
mobi |eng | 2006-09-14 | Author:McKean, Erin [McKean, Erin]

The study of slugs is limacology. (The lima bean is not related, being named for the capital of Peru.) The study of cooking is magirology. The study of entrails is ...
( Category: Vocabulary November 27,2014 )
The Naming of the Shrew by John Wright
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:John Wright

Equisetum palustre brevioribus foliis polyspermon Chapter VI The History of Naming And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the ...
( Category: Mushrooms November 10,2014 )
Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL by Kevin Yank
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:Kevin Yank [Yank, Kevin]

Notice that, because [ normally indicates the start of a set of acceptable characters in a regular expression, we put a backslash before it in order to remove its special ...
( Category: Web Design October 27,2014 )
801 Things You Should Know by David Olsen
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:David Olsen [Olsen, David]

AARON, HENRY (1934–) One of the greatest baseball players of all time as well as one of the first African-American major league baseball players. Aaron played twenty-three seasons from 1954 ...
( Category: Word Lists September 3,2014 )
Scottish Place Names by Maggie Scott
epub, mobi | | 2014-02-28 | Author:Maggie Scott

Slack − this is thought to be derived from Old Norse slakki, ‘a hollow between hills’, but some meanings of the word may show influence from Scots slock and its ...
( Category: Vocabulary July 23,2014 )
Scottish Weather (Say it in Scots!) by Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-12 | Author:Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson [Robinson, Chris]

Flan − gust of wind, especially one blowing smoke down a chimney, back draught; squall. As the following quotations show, flans are not good for housewives, sailors or gardeners. A ...
( Category: Vocabulary July 23,2014 )
The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day by Edward B. Fry Ph.D
epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Edward B. Fry, Ph.D.

1. My dance class has a ______ number of students. 2. If you ______ some chocolate, we can sprinkle it on ice cream. 3. I think our new sports stadium ...
( Category: Vocabulary, Slang & Word Lists March 26,2014 )
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Lynne Truss [Truss, Lynne]

Look at that sentence fly. Amazing. The way it stays up like that. Would anyone mind if I ate the last sandwich? Of course, nothing is straightforward in the world ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 26,2014 )
In a Word by Rosalie Baker
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Rosalie Baker

“Crust” is not always used to describe food. For example, “the upper crust” refers to the elite or upper-class group of people. Divan The Turkish word divan traced its meaning ...
( Category: Word Lists March 26,2014 )
The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World by Adam Jacot De Boinod
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-27 | Author:Adam Jacot De Boinod

A life of crime Italian offers a rich vocabulary for different types of crime and criminal. Smonta, for example, is a theft carried out on a bus or train from ...
( Category: Word Lists March 25,2014 )
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Lynne Truss

The big final rule for the comma is one that you won’t find in any books by grammarians. It is quite easy to remember, however. The rule is: don’t use ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 25,2014 )
The Unexpected Evolution of Language by Justin Cord Hayes
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Justin Cord Hayes

grin ORIGINAL DEFINITION: showing the teeth due to pain or anger NEW DEFINITION: show the teeth in a smile Sometimes it can be painful to hold a grin for too ...
( Category: Word Lists March 25,2014 )
Toujours Tingo by Adam Jacot De Boinod
epub |eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:Adam Jacot De Boinod

Loosely bolted And though four wheels are faster, there is many a pitfall: sakapusu (Sranan Tongo, Surinam) an unreliable vehicle, so called because you always need to get out (saka) ...
( Category: Word Lists March 25,2014 )

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