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From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations
ISBN: 9780199927128 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From baby boomers with 'groovy' and 'yuppie, ' to Generation X with 'whatever' and 'like, ' each generation inevitably comes to use certain words that are particular to its unique time in history. Those words not only tell us a great deal about the people in those generations, but highlight their differences with other generations.
In this entertaining compilation, Allan Metcalf, author of OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word, shows that each generation--those born within the same roughly 20-year time period--can be identified and characterized by its key words. Metcalf... From baby boomers with 'groovy' and 'yuppie, ' to Generation X with 'whatever' and 'like, ' each generation inevitably comes to use certain words that...
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80,96 zł |
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OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
ISBN: 9780199892532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the hidden history of OK--how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence. Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, here traces the evolution of America's most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and...
It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present bev...
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63,53 zł |
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The Life of Guy: Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Unlikely History of an Indispensable Word
ISBN: 9780190669201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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95,90 zł |
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Ok: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
ISBN: 9780195377934 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the hidden history of OK--how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence. It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage ... |
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100,87 zł |
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Predicting New Words
ISBN: 9780618130085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Examines the phenomenon of new word creation, offering criteria for predicting the success of new words and including the American Dialect Society's listing of words of the year from 1991 to 2001.
Examines the phenomenon of new word creation, offering criteria for predicting the success of new words and including the American Dialect Society's l...
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74,39 zł |
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Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush
ISBN: 9780618443741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Perhaps more than anyone else, politicians are what they say and how they say it. In Presidential Voices, Metcalf examines both how the presidents have spoken to the American public and how the American public has wanted its presidents to speak.
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Metcalf shows what contemporaries have said about the chief speakers in the White House. He explores the distinctive words that our presidents favored (and in many cases coined), along with the regional accents that livened the Oval Office. In addition, he uncovers the hidden influence of speechwriters and the... Perhaps more than anyone else, politicians are what they say and how they say it. In Presidential Voices, Metcalf examines both how the presidents hav...
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94,02 zł |
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Poetic Diction in the Old English Meters of Boethius
ISBN: 9783110991642 / Angielski / Twarda / 1973 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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481,48 zł |
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America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America
ISBN: 9780618002702 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this year-by-year review of intriguing words that have shaped America, words that have been contributed to the English language from the settlement in Jamestown in 1750 through 1998 are analyzed and discussed in historical context. 25 photos & line drawings.
In this year-by-year review of intriguing words that have shaped America, words that have been contributed to the English language from the settlement...
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100,66 zł |
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