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The Life of Guy
Had you said "What a guy!" in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Treason Plot. How times have …
Predicting New Words
Have you ever aspired to gain linguistic immortality by making up a word? Many people - such famous writers as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Dr. Seuss, along with many …
OK
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 …
Life of Guy
Had you said "e;What a guy!"e; in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Treason Plot. How …
Poetic diction in the Old English meters of Boethius
Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 2 (30 short stories)
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird …
From Skedaddle to Selfie
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 …
Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush
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 …
America in So Many Words
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 …