Words, Language & Grammar
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1992-09-01 | Author:Sinclair Lewis

CHAPTER XIX I IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson

12 Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alexander Stewart opened a business on Broadway called the Marble Dry-Goods Palace and in so ...
( Category: Linguistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Stanley Fish

(1925) Is this a sentence? It doesn’t have a beginning, middle, or end, and as you read it you can’t chart its progress toward a designed close. Who says “she ...
( Category: General Books & Reading March 25,2014 )
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 )
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 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-29 | Author:Mark Forsyth

Flying Peters Piers Plowman is a variant of Peter Plowman because the farmer in the poem was representative of the ideal disciple of Christ, the chief of the apostles and ...
( Category: Etymology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:John McWhorter

And somme understonde wel Englysch that can nother Latyn nor Frankys. Bothe lered and lewed, olde and gonge, Alle understonden english tonge. Lewed, by the way, meant “unlearned”—neat how the ...
( Category: Etymology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:John Marciano

pan·der v. To cynically cater to another’s interests. The character from whom this term originates has a long and varied history on the margins of great literature. In Homer’s Iliad, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Pennebaker, James W. [Pennebaker, James W.]

The words people use in their conversations, e-mails, and letters predict where they rank in the social hierarchy surprisingly well. As you might guess, status is revealed by function words ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Catherine Blyth

➺ Rule five: Scavenge for material Nothing to inspire you? Excuses, excuses. Imagine doing zip all, beautifully, full-time—and having to entertain bored masters, potentially on pain of death? Courtiers, muzzled ...
( Category: Etiquette March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-01 | Author:Chris Hedges

The assault on education began more than a century ago by industrialists and capitalists such as Andrew Carnegie. In 1891, Carnegie congratulated the graduates of the Pierce College of Business ...
( Category: Media & Internet March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-16 | Author:Arthur E. Rowse; John G. Doherty

SIGNS OF CHANGE But there never has been any doubt as to which side was winning. It has always been the brash linguistic invaders. One of the signs of change ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1973-10-15 | Author:Dean Koontz

CHAPTER FIVE Gothic-Romance In my third year as a freelance writer, the science fiction market temporarily dried up, due to editorial overstocking at several of the houses with the largest ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar March 25,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Forsyth, Mark [Forsyth, Mark]

2 ‘Head Over Feet’ (1996) by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard. Chapter 19 Isocolon Roses are red. Violets are blue. That, at its simplest, is isocolon. Two clauses that are ...
( Category: Etymology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:Flannery O'Connor

The child crashed through the woods, making the fallen leaves sound ominous under her feet. The sun had risen a little and was only a white hole like an opening ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )