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The Fight For English
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Author : David Crystal
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006
The Fight For English written by David Crystal and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Combining a chronological survey of key influences in the area of usage with discussion of such themes as punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation, tells the story of the battles surrounding English usage.
Keep Up The Fight For English
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Author : John Young Thomson Greig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Keep Up The Fight For English written by John Young Thomson Greig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with English language categories.
The Fight For English
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Author : David Crystal
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-09-07
The Fight For English written by David Crystal and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate. With a lively, humorous, and accessible approach, Crystal charts the battles past and present, illustrating the characters and attitudes involved from a wide range of written sources. He combines a chronological survey of key influences in the area of usage with discussion of particular themes such as punctuation, spelling, and pronunciation. And he looks ahead to the future in the context of recent education policy shifts. A positive and compelling case is made for variation in usage of English based on appropriateness of situation, arguing that 'zero tolerance' in relation to language is a profoundly flawed approach. Crystal offers an original and authoritative counter-argument to the prescriptivist agenda that has been expounded in many accounts of English usage over the years. The Fight for English is the book that everyone concerned with English usage has been eagerly awaiting.
The Dictionary Wars
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Author : Peter Martin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-08
The Dictionary Wars written by Peter Martin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with History categories.
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
English Reprints The Last Fight Of The Revenge At Sea
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Author : Walter Raleigh
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-03-05
English Reprints The Last Fight Of The Revenge At Sea written by Walter Raleigh and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-05 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Fight Liketiger Winchampion English Hc
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Author : Darmadi Darmawangsa
language : en
Publisher: Elex Media Komputindo
Release Date : 2006
Fight Liketiger Winchampion English Hc written by Darmadi Darmawangsa and has been published by Elex Media Komputindo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Begat
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Author : David Crystal
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-09-23
Begat written by David Crystal and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What do the following have in common? Let there be light - A fly in the ointment - A rod of iron - New wine in old bottles Lick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheels They are all in the King James Bible. This astonishing book "has contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial expressions than any other literary source." So wrote David Crystal in 2004. In Begat he returns to the subject not only to consider how a work published in 1611 could have had such influence on the language, but how it can still do so when few regularly hear the Bible and fewer still hear it in the language of Stuart England. No other version of the Bible however popular (such as the Good News Bible) or imposed upon the church (like the New English Bible) has had anything like the same influence. David Crystal shows how its words and phrases have over the centuries found independent life in the work of poets, playwrights, novelists, politicians, and journalists, and how more recently they have been taken up with enthusiasm by advertisers, Hollywood, and hip-hop. Yet the King James Bible owes much to earlier English versions, notably those by John Wycliffe in in the fourteenth century and William Tyndale in the sixteenth. David Crystal reveals how much that is memorable in the King James Bible stems from its forebears. At the same time he shows how crucial were the revisions made by King James's team of translators and editors. "A person who professes to be a critic in the delicacies of the English language ought to have the Bible at his finger's ends," Lord Macaulay advised Lady Holland in 1831. Begat shows how true that remains. It will be a revelation to all who read it.
The Fight
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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-09-17
The Fight written by Norman Mailer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible “professor of boxing.” The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble. Observing them was Norman Mailer, a commentator of unparalleled energy, acumen, and audacity. Whether he is analyzing the fighters’ moves, interpreting their characters, or weighing their competing claims on the African and American souls, Mailer’s grasp of the titanic battle’s feints and stratagems—and his sensitivity to their deeper symbolism—makes this book a masterpiece of the literature of sport. Praise for The Fight “Exquisitely refined and attenuated . . . [a] sensitive portrait of an extraordinary athlete and man, and a pugilistic drama fully as exciting as the reality on which it is based.”—The New York Times “One of the defining texts of sports journalism. Not only does Mailer recall the violent combat with a scholar’s eye . . . he also makes the whole act of reporting seem as exciting as what’s occurring in the ring.”—GQ “Stylistically, Mailer was the greatest boxing writer of all time.”—Chuck Klosterman, Esquire “One of Mailer’s finest books.”—Louis Menand, The New Yorker
Old English History
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Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
Old English History written by Edward Augustus Freeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Great Britain categories.
Late Medieval And Early Modern Fight Books
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-06-27
Late Medieval And Early Modern Fight Books written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-27 with History categories.
Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on interdisciplinary research on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe.