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This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs.

In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700-2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told.

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from Americafrom French fries to Awesome, man!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from Americafrom French fries to Awesome, man!

This pioneering volume builds on Prof.

This collection of essays by leading functional linguists presents the latest perspectives on language and discourse in educational settings.

Adjectives are the third most important class of words (after verbs and nouns), yet this is the first book-length study in English of this central grammatical category.

Terminologia del espanol: el termino / Spanish Terminology: The Term provides a consolidated and research-based guide to Terminology Science in Spanish.

This is a book about languages and the people who love them.

This book looks at how language has evolved around the globe from ancestral proto-languages to our recognisable modern tongues.

Hirschfeld's publications include a critical edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translation by Judah ibn Tibbon (1887); Arabic Chrestomathy in Hebrew Characters (1892); An Ethiopic-Falasi Glosary (1921); and Commentary on Deuteronomy (1925).

On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiancee.

"e;Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man, shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic.

This volume aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective.

This collection of trivia for true crime fanatics covers mind-blowing details you never knew about Jeffrey Dahmer, BTK, Aileen Wuornos, and others.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ';It's undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelingsKoenig casts light into lonely corners of human experienceAn enchanting book.

In the midst of gangland activities during the Roaring Twenties, a thief plagued the New York City area by breaking into people's homes and stealing radios, possibly the costliest thing a family could own.