Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology
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Wörterverzeichnisse, Vocabulaires, Lists of words

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Colloquialisms, Slang & Humour

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Alphabets and Writing Systems [13 members]

The Decipherment of Linear B
The Development of the Western Alphabet
The Greek Alphabet
Hangul - the Korean Writing System
Hieroglyphs
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Medieval Germanic Runes
The NATO phonetic alphabet Ogham - an Ancient Celtic Alphabet
The Rosetta Stone
Thorn - Missing Letter of the Alphabet
Writing Signs
Writing Systems

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Colloquialisms, Slang & Humour [45 members]

'All Your Base Are Belong To Us'
American Diner Slang
American Slang
An Explanation of l33t Speak
Antiquated Words and Phrases
Australian Slang
Cocking a Snook
Cockney Rhyming Slang
Common Irish slang
Contradictions in Terms
A Cup of Joe
Dublin English
Dunnies
English Slang
Estuary English
The Expression 'Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Good-looking Corpse'
Hard Boiled Slang
How to Speak Brummie
Idiot Stick
Insults
Legends of the Word 'OK'
Logical Fallacies in Everyday Use 'Mardy' - A Wonderful Word
Mondegreens
Neologisms
The Origins and Common Usage of British Swear-words
Owjas
The Oxford English Dictionary
The Phrase 'as Mad as a Hatter'
Polari - the Secret Language
Puns and Other Word Play
Puns: A Practical Guide
Selected Pretentious Literary Terminology
South African Jargon - a Survival Guide For Visitors
Swearing
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
Tongue Twisters
Witty Quotes
'Wlonk' - the Word
The Word 'Y'all'
WYSIWYG
Yogi-isms - the Strange Sayings of Yogi Berra
Zzzzz

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Languages [50 members]

Addressing People in German the Right Way
An Introduction to Arabic
Anglo-Saxon (Old English)
Bahasa Malaysia
The Berlitz Phrase Book
A Brief Introduction to the Czech Language
Bwlch, Wales, UK
Computer Languages [16 members]
Confusion between Words Used in English and German
El in the Ugaritic Texts
Esperanto
The Evolution of the Russian Language
Feral Children
Finnish Pronunciation
Finnish/German/English Phrase Guide
German Pronunciation
A Guide to Icelandic Pronunciation
Handy French Phrases
Handy Japanese Phrases
Handy Latin Phrases
Handy Mandarin Chinese Phrases
Handy Polish Phrases
Hebrew
A History of Modern and Extinct Celtic Languages
History of the Cherokee Language
How to Fake an English Accent in a Chatroom
Latin Pronunciation - a Beginner's Guide
Learning Languages
The Loss of Indigenous Languages - the Sociological Effects
Makaton - a Method of Communication for the Disabled
Medieval England - a Phrase Book
Medieval Germanic Runes
Mnemonics and Other Learning Devices
Model Languages
Money - Origins and Meanings of Words
Oddities of English
Pig Latin
Principles of Language Testing
Pronouncing Ancient Greek for English Speakers
The Russian Language
The Scots Leid
Spanish Pronunciation
The Story of Yogh
Talking with Koko - An Inter-species Communication
The Turing Test
Unity - the Number One
Useful Elvish Phrases
Wieners, Frankfurters, Hamburgers and German Naming Conventions

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Linguistics, Speech & Semantics [35 members]

Accent Rules for Spanish
Attack Of The Mutant Expressions
Canadian Toponymy
City Name Pronunciations in Illinois, USA
Dyslexia and the Mental Lexicon
Estuary English
French Pronunciation
Geek Code
Gender-Free Pronouns
German Pronunciation
The Glottal Stop
The Great Vowel Shift
A Guide to British-English Spelling for Americans
How to Speak Brummie
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Jargon and its Siblings
Language and Life - a Perspective on Species
The Language of Snobbery
Linguistic Isolates Logical Fallacies in Everyday Use
Makaton - a Method of Communication for the Disabled
Mondegreens
Nicknames
Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - The Longest Word
Polari - the Secret Language
Pronouncing British Placenames
Regional Dialects of the USA [7 members]
RP - Received Pronunciation
The Strange Case of the Missing 'N'
Surviving Foreign Language Oral Examinations
The Tetragrammaton
Thesaurus
Why Villains in Movies Have English Accents
Wieners, Frankfurters, Hamburgers and German Naming Conventions

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Style & Usage [43 members]

Addressing People in German the Right Way
Advertising
Ampersands
Antiquated Words and Phrases
The Berlitz Phrase Book
Colin Murphy: Football Manager/Bard
The Dark Roots of Blond(e) in The English Language
Declining English
English Strong and Weak Verbs - a Very Brief Overview
Ergonomics
Eskimo - the Wrong Term
Estuary English
Flaming and Trolling
The Four Main Reasons Why Scientists are Sometimes Incomprehensible
German Pronunciation
Graphology - The Art of Handwriting Analysis
A Guide to Saying Grace in Latin
Interactive Voice Response Systems
The Interrobang
Isms
Lateral Thinking
Latin Pronunciation - a Beginner's Guide
Medical Jargon Motion Picture Association of America Ratings System
Neologisms
New and Improved - The Great Advertising Fallacy
Object-oriented Programming
Oddities of English
Onomatopoeia
Origins of the Term 'Antipodean'
The Oxford English Dictionary
Palindromes
Punctuation - a Quick Guide
Puns and Other Word Play
Puns: A Practical Guide
Selected Pretentious Literary Terminology
Self-reference
Shorthand
Talkers - Elusive Internet Chat Rooms
Telling a Tall Tale - A Primer
Valid and Invalid Arguments
We
Why?

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Word Wise [47 members]

@ - The History
Acronyms
Anachronisms and Time Travel
Casey's Court
Concepts from Fiction
Defenestration
Deja Vu
Deus Ex Machina
Drivers
English Strong and Weak Verbs - a Very Brief Overview
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Footnotes
Futtocks
The Gadfly
How to Solve 'The Times' Crossword
Irony
Jargon and its Siblings
The Language of the Cube Farm
Legends of the Word 'OK'
The Longest German Word
The Longest Word
Lost Words
Mate
Neologisms
Nothing Oddities of English
One, Two, Three - the Word Game
Origins of the Days of the Week
The Oxford English Dictionary
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - The Longest Word
Pop - the Word
The Quote 'May You Live in Interesting Times'
Schadenfreude
Sesquipedalian Obscurantism
Specialised Words
Spell Checkers - A Warning
Stuff
Thesaurus
They
Thursday
Trousers versus Pants
We
'Wlonk' - the Word
The Word 'Dude'
The Word 'Like'
The Word 'Well'
'Yo' - A Word People Live By

bbc - Word Wise

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catchword (W3)

Im Englischen "schlagen" die Wörter nicht sondern "fangen". Das Wort "catchword" (= "Schlagwort") ist auf dem besten Weg zum "eye-catcher" = "Blickfang".

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hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (W3)

Das engl. "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian" bedeutet "ein sehr langes Wort betreffend".

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kokogiak
Obscure English words

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pons - Online-Wörterbuch Pons
DE-UK, UK-DE

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Deutsch - Englisch
Englisch - Deutsch

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takeourword
Etymological Theory
How words are created

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By imitation of sounds (onomatopoeia)
Through extended meanings
As derivations
Through compound words
From root + affix
Through changing pronunciation
Through changing spelling
From names (eponyms)
From the shortening or truncating of words
From acronyms
Portmanteau words
From foreign words
Invented words
Latin Roots
Latin Prefixes
Greek Affixes
Indo-European consonants

TU Chemnitz - Deutsch - Englisches Wörterbuch

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usingenglish
Check a Word's Grammar and Usage

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Our database contains information about 100,033 different words. You can check a word's grammar and usage simply by typing a word in the box below. Less common words may not be in the database, but we provide helpful links to enable you research the word further. Type a word in the search box above to research its definition.

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Mis-spelled Words - 108 words
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SAT Vocabulary - 5016 words
Spelling Problems - 123 words
TOEFL Vocabulary - 571 words
Words Ending in GRY - 125 words

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verbivore (W3)

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Richard Lederer's Verbovore
the web site woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores.
"Carnivores" eat meat; "herbivores" eat plants and vegetables; "verbivores" devour words.

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Word, Wort, wer-, were-, wre-, w-dho-, wer-dho-, wer-yo-, wre-tor-, wre-m (W3)

Ein "Wort", engl. "Word" ist eine bedeutungstragende Spracheinheit, bestehend aus einem oder mehreren Tönen oder ihrer schriftlichen Wiedergabe.

Das engl. "Word" und natürlich auch das dt. "Wort" gehen auf ein postuliertes ide. "*wer-", "*were-", "*wre-" = "sprechen" und weiter auf ide. "*w-dho-" = "word" zurück. Über germ. "*wurdam" wurde es zu "word" und "Wort".

Über das ide. "*wer-dho-" ist "word" verwandt mit "verb", "verve", "adverb", "proverb", und natürlich dem zugrunde liegenden lat. "verbum" = "word".

Aus dem verwandten ide. "*wer-yo-" = "Ironie" entstand griech. "eirein" = "sagen", "sprechen".

Aus der Variante ide. "*wre-tor-" entstandt der griech. "rhetor" und damit dt., engl. "Rhetor", "öffentlicher Sprecher".

Aus der Variante ide. "*wre-m" entstandt der griech. "rhema" = "word", "Rede", "Aussage". Und die "Rede" dürfte demnach ja auch auf diese indoeuropäische Wurzel zurück gehen.

Unter anderem ist "Word" ist auch die Bezeichnung für ein Schreibprogramm.

Und in der Computerei bezeichnet "word" auch die kleinste adressierbare Einheit.

word: A fundamental unit of storage in a computer. The size of a word in a particular computer architecture is one of its chief distinguishing characteristics.

The size of a word is usually the same as the width of the computer's {data bus} so it is possible to read or write a word in a single operation.

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"Word" is an English (and German) place name for the man who lived near the thicket. Or near a winding brook. Or the man who inhabited an open place in a village. Or the man who had an ancestor named "Werdo", which was a pet form of the name "Werdmann" or "Werdheri". In the case of the latter, it's a Patronymic name.

Zu diesem engl. "Word" passt der dt. "Wördemann" als Bezeichnung für einen Bewohner eines mnd. "wort" = "erhöhtes und eingehegtes Grundstück" und das altengl. "wirth" = "befestigte Siedlung". Diese mnd. "wort" steckt vermutlich auch in Ortsnamen wie "Wörde" in Nordrhein-Westfalen und "Wöhrden" in Schleswig-Holstein und Niedersachsen (allerdings ohne Gewähr, da ich keinen Hinweis dazu gefunden habe).

Der "Wördeman" gehört also zur Familie der "Werder-Wörter".

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"Word": Ein Satz von Bits (normalerweise 16 oder 32), der eine einzelne Speicherposition belegt und der vom Computer als eine Informationseinheit behandelt wird.

(E?)(L?) http://www.hope.edu/academic/english/gruenler/newterms.htm
Hier wird ein als "Grußwort" benutztes "word" vorgestellt, das anscheinend aus der Musikszene bzw. neueren Jugendkultur erwachsen ist. Es wird anscheind im Sinne von "Sag mir mal ein Wort" = "Was gibts Neues?" benutzt.

word n. A question asked to another person in greeting them. This is to ask someone what the word is on how they are and what they are doing. As a person walks past they may be greeted with, "Word!" This derives from "word" as information or news. "Word up" is a common phrase used with this definition to ask what is happening with someone else. Often used in alternative and rap music.

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word:
(1) A character string considered as a unit for a given purpose.
(2) A fundamental unit of storage that refers to the amount of data that can be processed at a time. Word size is a characteristic of the computer architecture. See also doubleword, halfword.
word boundary: Any storage position at which data must be aligned for certain processing operations. See also doubleword boundary, fullword boundary, halfword boundary.
word formation element: A word fragment. For example, the sentence "It's a wonderful world" is made up of the following word fragments, it + 's + a + wonderful + world.
word spotting: In speech recognition, the ability to recognize a single word in a stream of words.
word stemming: A process of linguistic normalization in which the variant forms of a word are reduced to a common form. For example, words like connections, connective, and connected are reduced to connect.
word wrap: A function of a program that automatically moves the last word on a displayed line of text down to the next line if the word runs beyond the right margin setting.

a regular stress pattern, and
phonological changes conditioned by or blocked at word boundaries
being the largest unit resistant to insertion of new constituents within its boundaries, or
being the smallest constituent that can be moved within a sentence without making the sentence ungrammatical.

A word is sometimes placed, in a hierarchy of grammatical constituents, above the morpheme level and below the phrase level.

Here are some kinds of words:

What is an adjective?
What is an adposition?
What is an adverb? (Linguistics)
What is a classifier?
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What is a determiner?
What is a dummy word?
What is an emphasis marker?
What is an exclamative?
What is an existential marker?
What is a fossilized term?
What is an honorific?
What is an ideophone?
What is an interjection?
What is a particle?
What is a pro-form?
What is a substantive?
What is a verb? (Linguistics)
What is a clitic? (Grammar)

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word (searchCIO-Midmarket)
word processor (searchWinIT)
Words-to-Go (searchUnifiedCommunications)
Words-to-Go: Voice over

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In computer architecture, a word is a unit of data of a defined bit length that can be addressed and moved between storage and the computer processor. Usually, the defined bit length of a word is equivalent to the width of the computer's data bus so that a word can be moved in a single operation from storage to a processor register.
For any computer architecture with an eight-bit byte, the word will be some multiple of eight bits. In IBM's evolutionary System/360 architecture, a word is 32 bits, or four continguous eight-bit bytes. In Intel's PC processor architecture, a word is 16 bits, or two contiguous eight-bit bytes.
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Subordinates more ...

clitic is a (kind of)
etymology is property/aspect of
grammatical word is a (kind of)
interrogative word is a (kind of)
lexeme is a (kind of)
lexical meaning is property/aspect of

Superordinates

is a (kind of) linguistic sign
is a (kind of) syntactic unit
is part of syntagm
manifests concept

Definition:
A word is a grammatical unit that enjoys a moderate degree of autonomy. I.e. while its parts tend to occupy fixed (morphological) positions, to be welded phonologically, to contract well-defined paradigmatic relations, all this is true to a lesser extent for the word itself and to an even lesser extent for the syntagm.
The cognitive counterpart of a word in general is a mental representation.

Designation Standard Language

léksis is std Ancient Greek
word is std English
mot is std French
Wort is std German
dictio is std Latin
uerbum is non-std Latin
palavra is std Portuguese
palabra is std Spanish

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word Last modified: Wednesday, September 19, 2001

(1) In word processing, any group of characters separated by spaces or punctuation on both sides. Whether it is a real word or not is unimportant to the word processor.
(2) In programming, the natural data size of a computer. The size of a word varies from one computer to another, depending on the CPU. For computers with a 16-bit CPU, a word is 16 bits (2 bytes). On large mainframes, a word can be as long as 64 bits (8 bytes).
Some computers and programming languages distinguish between shortwords and longwords. A shortword is usually 2 bytes long, while a longword is 4 bytes.
(3) When capitalized, short for Microsoft Word.

woxikon - Online Lexikon und Wörterbuch

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Woxikon, das Online Lexikon und Wörterbuch. Übersetzung von Wörtern und Wortgruppen.

"Woxikon" setzt sich zusammen aus "Wort", "Wörter" und "Lexikon" (kurz "Woxi"). "Woxikon" begann als reines Wörterbuch. Mittlerweile ist aus dem Wörterbuch ein umfangreiches Lexikon entstanden. Mit Übersetzungen, Synonymen, Reimen, Abkürzungen und vielem mehr.

Wörterbücher:

Deutsch Wörterbuch
Englisch Wörterbuch
Französisch Wörterbuch
Spanisch Wörterbuch
Italienisch Wörterbuch
Niederländisch Wörterbuch
Portugiesisch Wörterbuch
Schwedisch Wörterbuch
Russich Wörterbuch

Wörterbuch in anderen Sprachen:

Wörterbuch in Deutsch
Dictionary in English
Dictionnaire en Français
Diccionario en Español
Dizionario in Italiano
Woordenboek in Nederlands
Ordbok på Svenska

Neben dem Wörterbuch bietet Woxikon ein umfangreiches Lexikon an.
Synonyme: Woxikon bietet eines der größten Synonym- und Antonym-Wörterbücher deutscher Wörter.
Reim Hilfe: Deutsche und Englische Wörter zu finden, die sich reimen ist oft nicht leicht. Woxikon Reime hilft Ihnen dabei und findet das passende Wort.
Rechner: Woxikon bietet verschiedene Online-Rechner, die Ihnen den Alltag erleichtern werden. - Taschenrechner, Währungsrechner, Einheitenrechner.
Grammatik: Mit dieser Grammatik-Übersicht möchten wir Ihnen helfen, die deutsche Grammatik besser zu verstehen und einen genauen Überblick zu bekommen. Mit Beispielen erklärt und wichtigen Links zu Übungsaufgaben.
Abkürzungen: Oft genutzt, selten gewusst. Abkürzungen bestimmen unseren Alltag. Woxikon hat ein Abkürzungs-Lexikon/-Wörterbuch mit den wichtigsten Begriffen erstellt.

worldwidewords (www)
World Wide Words - Word-Histories - Word List - Wort-Liste - Newsletter
Michael Quinion writes about international English from a British viewpoint
The English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution

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Michael Qunion's World Wide Words - Michael Quinion has an extensive and most wonderful site. It should come as no surprise that he's affiliated with the "Oxford English Dictionary", among other notable institutions.

Michael Quinion writes about International English from a British viewpoint. Hundreds of pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English, with features on new words and words in the news.
This site features "Articles on Aspects of English," "Turns of Phrase," "The Word Hoard," and "Usage Notes".

A collection of short essays by Michael Quinion on a wide variety of topics. Sections on new words, newsworthy words, old obscure words, and usage notes. Consistently interesting and reliable.

MICHAEL QUINION

After Cambridge University, where he studied physical sciences, he joined BBC radio as a studio manager. “The job was a fascinating blend of the techie and the creative artist,” he says. “Though much of the time you were dogsbody, equipment operator and referee rolled into one”. After that, he helped to start local radio in Britain, at Brighton, where he produced programmes about the countryside, consumer affairs, books, religion, student life and the local and general elections. He then moved to Plymouth, where he helped to start a breakfast-time two-hour sequence of news and local features.

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Eine absolute englische Spitzen-Site rund um Wörter, Wortgeschichten und Etymologie.

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Empfehlenswert ist auch der wöchentliche Newsletter.
Im Archiv "listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/worldwidewords.html" sind die Newsletter seit Dezember 1998 abrufbar.

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Neben der Linkliste sind dann auch noch die beiden Bücher von Michael Quinion zu empfehlen.

(E1)(L1) http://www.worldwidewords.org/posh.htm
One book, two titles.: It is called "Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds" in the USA and "Port Out, Starboard Home" ("POSH") everywhere else.

The cat’s pajamas, the bee’s knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for word lovers skewers commonly accepted word-origin myths and etymological folk tales. Can it really be true that golf stands for “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden”? Did the term computer "bug" really derive from an errant moth shorting out an early computer? Did the "kangaroo" really get its name through a misunderstanding between explorers and natives? The real story of the origin and evolution of a word or phrase is often much stranger than the commonly accepted one. The expressions that Michael Quinion reviews range throughout the English-speaking world, from cater-cornered to dinkum and from wet one’s whistle to happy as a clam. From the bawdy to the sublime, explanations and delightful asides truly prove that the proof is in the pudding. If you ever wondered about why we utter such oddities as raining cats and dogs, I could care less or twenty-three skidoo, this one’s for you. It’s a treasure trove of fiction and fact for anyone interested in language.

Am 26.08.2005 waren folgende Inhalte in den einzelnen Sektionen zu finden:

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ARTICLES SECTION INDEX

This is a collection of longer pieces, not much added to these days, on some development or aspect of the language that has taken my fancy.

A test question gets grammarians arguing: On pronouns and possessive antecedents.
A Word for All: The odd history of omnibus
A Zillion Troubles: That's about the size of it
Action at a distance: The evolving tele- prefix
ADS Words of the Year, 2003: A vintage collection of new words and phrases
Alas Poor Nell: A name traduced
Aluminium versus aluminum: Why two spellings?
ASYE: Acronyms Selected for Your Enjoyment
Balderdash and flummery: A few words from Welsh
Between the Lines: Some railway words
Bissextile, Intercalary, Embolistic: Some leap year words
Chosen words: The language of elections
Cider Insight: The jargon of an ancient craft
Citing Online Sources: Advice on online citations formats
Cyberplague: Help! A prefix out of control!
Decadal Dismay: What shall we call the forthcoming decade?
Drink it, it'll do you good: Possets, caudles and cordials
Easy pickings: Don't play fast and loose with me
Eating crow: And other indigestibles
Ee: An ambiguous suffix explored
Elementary, my dear IUPAC: Naming the rarest of atoms
Engine and Motor: Two closely-related words investigated
Fears and dreads: Words for irrational feelings
Fibres from the Earth: Names for some natural materials
Former wines are passed away: Some almost forgotten liquors
Gender-neutral pronouns: Can one avoid sexist writing?
Ghoulies and Ghosties: Things that go bump in the night
Gordon Bennett: And other Gordons
Gutta-percha, Ketchup, Sago: Words from Malay
How bona to vada your eek!: A gay way of speaking
How Many Words?: How many in the language and how many
does any one person know?
How words enter the language: Is there a formal process?
I Spy Gry!: Riddle Me No Riddles
Impactful Ignorals: New terms that blush unseen.
Inkhorn terms: Invented words that didn't make it
Is This a Word?: The language stork keeps lexicographers busy
Meeting room jargon: Just fuel for buzzword bingo?
Mind the greens!: Creative mishearings of lyrics
Mind Your Ps and Qs: A puzzling and quirky idiom
Misplaced Modifiers: Sloppy writing that evokes odd images.
Money matters: How much is that, then?
My fellow Merkins: An Internet bad joke
New Words in the News: Can you really link a word to a year?
Newspapergate: Knee-jerk journo neologisms
No trees in the forest?: Chasing a changing sense
Only joking?: Should the smiley be outlawed?
People Versus Persons: When should we use which?
Plain English Campaign Awards 2002: Textual confusion.
Plain English Campaign Awards 2003: One man's gobbledegook is another's plain speaking.
Precision of Lexicographers: On the history of collective nouns.
Pro bono publico: English legal language is changing
Programming, Hungarian style: Gobbledegook in C
Putting the Kibosh on it: An unEnglish expression?
Robodroid: An unhuman confusion
Rules, Britannia: When it's OK to use GB or UK
Sapristi Nadgers!: Where did that word come from?
Shades of Meaning: Colour, hue, tint and shade
Signs for Sums: Where our arithmetic symbols come from
Talking Turkey: Names for a much-travelled bird
The Colour of Words: The fugitive names of hues
The Full Monty: Where that film title came from
The Great Element Chase: Naming the unrare earths
The Miller's Tale: Beware of plausible etymologies
The Whole Nine Yards: But nine yards of what?
Through the Blender: New words, portmanteau style
Town of Trades: Ross-on-Wye 150 years ago
Travellers to Antique Lands: Tourism's lexical legacy
Unpaired words: Accentuating the negative
Where it's at: Names for a common symbol
Which versus that: When to use each in subordinate clauses.
Words of 1997: Some new words from the Oxford Archives
Words of 1998: Some lists of new words discussed
Words of 2001: Two lists of new words are discussed
Words of 2002: Two lists of new words are discussed

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS SECTION INDEX

Pieces originate in questions asked by subscribers to the World Wide Words newsletter and are as eclectic as you could wish.

A to F

Abbreviation lb for pound; w Abracadabra; w Adam’s off ox; w Aga saga; w Aksed versus asked; All mouth and trousers; All my eye and Betty Martin; All wool and a yard wide; April; Arfanarf; Argy-bargy; Arms akimbo; Artefact versus artifact; Ascian; At sixes and sevens; Aunt Sally; Bail out; Barbecue; Barking mad; Bated breath; Bear up; Beat the band; Bee’s knees; Beg the question; Beggar on horseback; Bells and whistles; Besmitten; Best bib and tucker; Beyond the pale; Big cheese; Big girl’s blouse; Big pond; Bill; Bint; Birds and the bees; Bistro; Black Maria; Blackbirding; Blighty; Blivet and nitnoid; Blockbuster; Bloke; Blot one’s copy book; Blow the gaff; Blue; Blue blood; Blue-plate special; Bob’s your uncle; Bobby; Bog-standard; Bohemian; Boilerplate; Bonce; Boodle bag; Books without the letter ‘e’; Boot; Bootleg; Bossy; Boycott; Brand spanking new; Brass monkey weather; Brass ring; Brassed off; Brassiere; Break a leg; Break one’s duck; Briar pipe; Bridie; Brouhaha; Brown study; Brownie points; Buck up; Buckley’s chance; Bug; Bulls and bears; Bumbershoot; Bumf; Bun fight; Bunny rabbit; Butter no parsnips; Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth; By and large; By Jove; By the great horn spoon; Cack-handed; Camp; Carpet; Carry the can; Case in point; Cast aspersions; Cat’s mother, the; Catbird seat; Centrifical force; Chaise longue; Chance your arm; Charley horse; Cheap at half the price; Chew the scenery; Chillaxing; Chip off the old block; Chip on one’s shoulder; Chook; Chow; Chunder; Church key; Claptrap; Cloud nine; Cobblers; Cock a snook; Cock-up; Cockles of your heart; Cold shoulder; Colon; Colonel; Column; Come a cropper; Come hell or high water; Compleat v complete; Cool; Cooties; Cop; Cop-out; Coppice; Country names in -stan; Countryside; Crackpot; Crap; Cream; Cream crackered; Crimony; Crocodile tears; Crush; Cry all the way to the bank; Curate’s egg; Curmudgeon; Cut the mustard; Cut your stick; Dab hand; Darby and Joan; Dauncy; Davy Jones’ locker; Dead as a doornail; Dead cat bounce; Deadhead; Dealybob; Dear John letter; Death toll; Dekko; Derby; Devil to pay, the; Dibs; Dichotomy; Dick’s hatband; Diddler; Digs; Dog in the manger; Dog-and-pony show; Dogsbody; Done and done; Donkey’s years; Doolally tap; Doozy; Dopp kit; Double-dog dare you; Doughboy; Down to the wire; Drag; Dreaded lurgi; Dressed to the nines; Drum and Gaff; Dry run; Duck soup; Ducks and drakes; Duct tape NEW ; Duke’s mixture; Eavesdropper; Egg on one’s face; Eggplant; Egregious; Eighty-six; Elephant and Castle; Embuggerance; Enquire versus inquire; Enthuse; Envision versus envisage; Esprit de l’escalier; Exception that proves the rule; Face the music; Fainites; Fair cop; Fair dinkum; Fair to middling; Feckless; Fiddler’s Green; Fiddlesticks; Fight like Kilkenny cats; Fine fettle; First, second and third worlds; Flummox; Fog; Foot the bill; For appearance’s sake; For Pete’s sake; Forte; Forthwith; Frequency of initial letters; Frick and Frack; Fro; From whence; Fuddy-duddy; Funk; Funner and funnest; Fuzz

G to O

Gadget; Gander; Gandy dancer; Get one’s goat; Gig; Gingerly; Git; Give it some welly; Give no quarter; Go hence without day; Goat and Compasses; Gobsmacked; Going south; Going to hell in a handbasket; Golf; Goody two shoes; Gorp; Gotham; Grapefruit; Grass roots; Grass widow; Gravy train; Great Scott; Green room; Green-ink letter; Groovy; Ground zero; Groundswell; Grub; Gubernatorial; Guff; Guinea pig; Gussied up; Gyp; Gyp; Hackneyed; Hairbrained; Hammer and tongs; Handicapped; Hang a Louie; Hang fire; Happy as a clam; Happy as a sandboy; Happy as Larry; Hard graft; Harsh one’s mellow; Hat trick; Have one’s guts for garters; Have your cake and eat it; Head over heels; Heat; Heavens to Betsy; Heebie-jeebies; Heighth; Hem and haw; Herb; High jinks; High Street; Hill of beans; Hillbillies; Hippie; His nibs; Historical forms of the possessive; Hobo; Hobson’s choice; Holy smoke; Honeymoon; Hoo-ha; Hooplehead; Hop the twig; Hopefully; Horns of a dilemma; Horsefeathers; Hot dog; How’s your father; Huckleberry; Hue and cry; Hullaballoo; Hunker down; Hunky-dory; Hush puppy; I could care less; I feel good; I should cocoa; Immense chemical names; In cold blood; In like Flynn; In the field; Indian summer; Irish twins; Irregardless; It’s a dog’s life; It’s Greek to me; Ivory tower; Jacob’s join; Jalopy; Jamoke; Jazz; Jesus H Christ; Jimmy a lock; Jinx; Joe; John; John Doe; Johnny-on-the-spot; Jolly hockey-sticks; Joystick; Juju & jujube; Jukebox; Jumbo; Jump the shark; Jumper; Jumping Jehoshaphat; Jury rigged; Kangaroo court; Katy bar the door; Keep mum; Keep your eyes peeled; Kelsey’s nuts; Ketchup versus catsup; Kick the bucket; Kilometre; Kilroy was here; Kilter; King Charles’s Head; Kip; Kiss the gunner’s daughter; Kitty; Kitty-corner; Kludge; Know your onions; Lead-pipe cinch; Lead-swinger; Left holding the bag; Let the cat out of the bag; Life of riley; Lightning in a bottle; Like a banshee; Like the dickens; Likeness; Living daylights, the; Lizzie Tish (or Tizzy Lish); Loblolly boy; Lock, stock and barrel; Long arm of the law; Long johns; Loo; Lope; Lynch; Mad as a hatter; Mad as hops; Make a hames of something; Make ends meet; Make no bones about it; Malarky; Mare’s nest; Mash note; Mayfair; McGuffin; Merismus; Mess; Milquetoast; Mind your beeswax; Missing opposites; Mogadored; Moggie; Mollycoddling; Mollydooker; Monkey’s uncle; Monkey’s wedding; Monstering; Mooch; Mooncalf; Moot point; More than one way to skin a cat; Mortarboard; Moxie; Muchness; Mufti; Mullered; Mummer; Mumpsimus; My giddy aunt; Nauseous versus nauseated; Nave; Navvy; Nebbishy; Needs must when the devil drives; New York minute; Niche; Nick of time; Niggardly; Nineteen to the dozen; Nit-picking; Nitty-gritty; No soap; Nonce; Nosy parker; Not by a long chalk; Not this little black duck!; Nothing like leather; Ocker; OK; Old Dart; Ollie ollie oxen free; On a wing and a prayer; On all fours; On one’s tod; On pins and needles; On tenterhooks; On the Adrian; On the fritz; On the QT; On the wagon; On your uppers; One another; One fell swoop; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; Oneirodynia; Orange; Organogram; Orientated versus oriented; Out of sorts; Out of whack; Over a barrel; Over the moon; Over the yardarm; Oxford comma

P to Z

Pain versus pine; Pair of pants; Palooka; Panhandle; Patient; Peanut gallery; Pear-shaped; Peruse; Peter out; Philogynist; Pie in the sky; Piffy on a rock bun; Pig in a poke; Pigs might fly; Pinkie; Piping hot; Pitch; Play it by ear; Pleased as Punch; Plonk; Plurals in ‘-en’; Po-faced; Pogey; Point-blank; Policy wonk; Pollyanna; Pom; Pop goes the weasel; Pop one’s clogs; Posh; Potboiler; Prat; Predominately versus predominantly; Pretty; Proof of the pudding; Pull (out) the plug; Pulling one’s leg; Punctuation and quotation marks; Purl; Push the envelope; Put on (the) dog; Q followed by U; Quack; Queen of Spain’s Legs; Queer somebody’s pitch; Quiz; Raining cats and dogs; Ramping cat; Range; Read the riot act; Real McCoy, the; Retort; Rhykenology; Riff-raff; Right as rain; Ringer / Dead ringer; Road metal; Rod; Roger; Rogue; Round-robin; Rule of thumb; Rush the growler; Salad days; Sam Hill; San fairy ann; Sand; Sandy-grey russet; Saved by the bell; Say (or cry) uncle; Scot free; Scotch; Screaming ab-dabs; Scuttlebutt; Sea change; See a man about a dog; Segue; Send to Coventry; Settle a score; Sha’n’t versus shan’t; Shaggy dog story; Shake a stick at; Shank’s mare; Shilling ordinary; Shindig; Shit; Shoo-in; Short shrift; Shufti; Sick as a dog; Silver bullet; Singular or plural verb with ‘none’; Singular they; Skell; Skive; Skivvies; Skosh; Skunk works; Sky-blue pink; Slang; Sleep tight; Sleeping one’s head into train oil; Sling one’s hook; Smart Alec; Smarty pants; Snit; Snob; So dull you could ride to China on them; Sock it to them; Soft sawder; Sow one’s wild oats; Spatchcock; Spelling bee; Spendthrift; Spick and span; Spiff; Spitting feathers; Spitting image; Spiv; Spoil; Sport one’s oak; Square; Squaw; Stars and garters; Start from scratch; State of the art; Stationary versus stationery; Steal one’s thunder; Stemwinder; Step-; Stick-in-the-mud; Sticky wicket; Stone the crows; Stonking; Stool pigeon; Suffonsified; Sugar and sure; Sunday throat; Swag; Swain; Swamper; Swashbuckling; Swearing on one’s testicles; Sycophant; Synecdoche and metonymy; Take the mickey; Take the piss; Talk turkey; Tall tale; Tapping the Admiral; Tarred with the same brush; Tchotchke; Teaching one’s grandmother to suck eggs; Teetotal; Teller; Tempest in a teapot; Terms using Dutch; The ending -ati; The ending -wards; The endings ‘-ise’ and ‘-ize’; The whole megillah; Theodolite; Three sheets in the wind; Through the grapevine; Throw in the towel; Tickety-boo; Tide one over; Time out of mind; Tinhorn; Tinker’s damn; Tip; To boot; To buy the farm; To wit; Toad-eater; Toe the line; Toe-rag; Ton; Top notch; Touch wood/knock on wood; Tracklements; Trip the light fantastic; True facts; Tub thumping; Turn up for the book; Twee; Un- versus In-; Understand; Until, till and ‘til; Up in Annie’s room; Up to snuff; Upsidaisy; Vamp; Vet; Waffling; Waiting for the other shoe to drop; Watershed; West Brit; Wet one’s whistle; Which came first: he or she?; While versus whilst; While versus wile; Whim-wham for a goose’s bridle; Whip round; Whistle-stop tour; Whole ball of wax; Whole cloth; Whole kit and kaboodle; Whopper-jawed; Whose; Widget; Wigs on the green; Windy City; Within a gnat’s ...; Woebegone; Won’t; Words for the numbers following ten; Work cut out; Worth the candle; Wrong side of the bed; Ye gods and little fishes!; Year’s mind; Yehudi did it; Yonks; Zilch

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REVIEWS SECTION INDEX

This is the archive of book and CD-ROM reviews that have appeared in the newsletter and which are still in print.
Each review has links in the navigation column at left that take you to the various Amazon sites at which the work is available. If you order the item using one of these links, you get World Wide Words a small commission that helps to pay for the Web site and general operating expenses.

A Little Alphabet Book
A Word A Day
A Word in Your Shell-Like
America In So Many Words
American Heritage Dictionary
Antarctic Dictionary
Between You and I: a Little Book of Bad English
Blooming English
Cambridge Int. Dictionary of English
Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins
Cassell Dictionary of Word Histories
Chronicle of American Literature
Convict Words
Depraved and Insulting English
Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
Dictionary of New Zealand English
Dog Days and Dandelions
Dubious Doublets
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Four new editions of British dictionaries
Frantic Semantics
Garner’s Modern American Usage
Gobbledygook
Green English
Hatchet Jobs and Hardball
How We Talk
In Other Words
Jesse’s Word of the Day
Language and the Internet
Language in Danger
Language Visible
Language War
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions
Mind the Gaffe
Never Let a Fool Kiss You, or a Kiss Fool You
New Oxford Dictionary of English
New Oxford Thesaurus of English
New Penguin English Dictionary
Norfolk Dialect
OED Online
Oops, Pardon Mrs Arden!
Oxford Dictionary of Allusions
Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases
Oxford Dictionary of New Words
Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang
Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM
Oxford Guide to Plain English
Oxford Guide to Word Games
Oxford Guide to World English
Oxford Pop-up Reference Shelf
Oxford World English Dictionary Shelf
Pocket Fowler; the Plain English Guide
Power of Babel
Predicting New Words
Presidential Voices
Recent British English dictionaries
Roget’s Thesaurus
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
Slang of Sin
Slayer Slang
Speak: A Short History of Languages
Spoken Here
Stories of English
The Adventure of English
The Dimwit’s Dictionary
The Grouchy Grammarian
The Meaning of Everything
The New Oxford American Dictionary
The Oxford Dictionary
The Superior Person’s Third Book of Words
The Unfolding of Language
They Have a Word for It
Tracks That Speak
Twentieth Century Words
Two guides to easily confused words
Verbatim
Warden of English
Weeds in the Garden of Words
Weird and Wonderful Words
Word Histories and Mysteries
Word Histories and Mysteries
Word Map
Word Parts Dictionary
Word Spy
Words Fail Me
Words on Words
World In So Many Words

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TOPICAL WORDS SECTION INDEX

These pieces arise as a result of my spotting a word in a newspaper or online that suggests itself as a topical subject of discussion.

-nomics; Addiction; Ambient; Apology; Arsenal; Ban; Banana; Billy-o; Blue moon; Bluestocking; Boffin; Bogus; Boss; Braggadocious; Brainstorming; Brand; Bribery; Budget; Buff; Bustard; Butler; Cahoot; Camera; Campaign; Carnage; Carnal; Chad; Chav; Chemical; Clone; Confide; Cooked; Coup; Credible; Cronyism; Crumpet; Cull; Culture; Curriculum; Dangerous; Deprecate; Diplomacy; Doh!; Domesday; Enormity; Enthusiast; Ethnic; Experience; Facile; Family; Fan; Farrago; Faze; Frisbee; Good egg; Gravitas; Hooligan; Horlicks; Hundred days; Impeach; Influenza; Insult; Internet; Jejune; Jubilee; Lewd; List; Mail; Making love; McJob; Medium; Meme; Meritocracy; Migrate; Millennium; Mistress; Moment; Moonshine; Morganatic; Murder; Murphy’s Law; Nano; Napping; New; Organic; Pagan; Pander; Panel; Panic; Pants; Passenger; Phenomenon; Pie; Portfolio; Positronic; Prevent; Problemsome; Quantum; Real; Replica; Rocket; Rookery; Seaborgium; Sentimental; Shag; Shanty; Silicon; Sojourner; Sophisticated; Spade; Spinster; Staple; Sublime; Suburb; Sulphur; Tabloid; Tacky; Target; Tax; Terraforming; The E- prefix; Tiddlywinks; Tsar; Union; Vegelate; Vote; Weird; Welfare; Wildfire; Wormwood; Zip;

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TURNS OF PHRASE SECTION INDEX

This section features words that are relatively new and which often have not yet reached the dictionaries. At least, this was true at the time they were written—remember this is an archive of pieces written over the past seven years!

Misc

2C-B; 360-degree feedback

A to F

Acoustic shock; Aerobot; Affluence test; Agroterrorism; Alcolock; Alcopop; Allohistory; Ambient advertising; Amperkine; Andropause; Angiogenesis inhibitor; Anorakish; Apoptosis; Archaeon; Areologist; Artilect; Asian Brown Cloud; Asymmetrical warfare; Auxetic; Beanpole family; Big Bang II; Bioinformatics; Bioinvasion; Biomimetics; Biomusicology; Biophilia; Biopiracy; Biopunk; Biosurgery; Birtism; Black-water rafting; Blairism; Blobitecture; Blu-Ray; Blue revolution; Bluejacking; Bluetooth; Bookcrossing; Botnet; Brain fingerprinting; Break-out space; Bright; Business theatre; Café Scientifique; Caffeinol; Captology; Cedar revolution; Celtic Tiger; Chemtrail; Chill Can; Chronopsychology; Chronotherapy; Cleanskin; Clinical governance; Cobot; Collaboratory; Commentariat; Community currency; Community marriage policy; Computer-assisted journalism; Consilience; Convivium; Cool Britannia; Coopetition; Cosmeceutical; Covenant marriage; Crisis memoir; Crunk; Culture jamming; Cyberchondria; Cyberloafing; Cyberventing; Darwin Day; Data archaeology; Data haven; Datacasting; Deep Web; Demutualisation; Denglisch; Dental Spa; Diabesity; Digital divide; Disintermediation; Dog-whistle politics; Dogme 95; DOTS; Doula; Downshifter; Dress-up Thursday; Drive-by-wire; DVD; Dyspraxia; E-day; E-num; E-science; E-voting; Ebonics; Echo boomer; Eco-cement; Ecofact; Ecologism; Economy-class syndrome; Econophysics; Electroclash; Electronic cinema; Electronic paper; Electrosmog; Emo; Endocrine disrupter; Entitlement card; Envirocrime; Euro-creep; Euroland; Evernet; Evidence-based education; Evo-devo; Exformation; Exoplanet; Experimental travel; Extranet; Eyerobics; Fabless; Fashionista; Feebate; Financial; Flash mob; Folksonomy; Footfall; Free-running; Freecycling; Freegan; Fusion inhibitor

G to O

Gene chip; Genetic pollution; Genetic underclass; Geosequestration; Global dimming; Global distillation; Globesity; Glycomics; Gold-collar worker; Golden rice; Gorge-walking; Green famine; Green roof; Grey goo; Grey literature; Grid; Grid computing; Grime; Guerrilla gig; Gutkha; Happy slapping; Heroin chic; Hidden hunger; Home zone; Homeshoring; Hot desking; Hybrid CD; Hydrodyne process; Hydrogen economy; Hypercar; Hypernova; I-mode; Identity theft; Information fatigue syndrome; Information rich/information poor; Informavore; Infowar; Injecting room; Inplacement; Interesterification; Intermercial; Internet 2; Intranet; Iraqification; Iris code; Irritable male syndrome; Kibibyte; Leisure sickness; Lifestyle drug; Lightcraft; Linguistic profiling; M-commerce; M-government; Machinima; Magnetar; Man date; Mathom; MDR-TB; Mechatronics; Meldrew; MEMS; Mesh radio; Metamediary; Metrosexual; Micro-wind turbine; Microcredit; Microtransaction; Millennium bug; Misomusist; Miswanting; Mobisode; Molecular Archaeology; Molecular farming; Molecular gastronomy; Moletronics; Mountainboarding; Muscle dysmorphia; Naked Street; Nanopublishing; NaSSA; Neurobics; Neuroeconomics; Neuromarketing; Neurotheology; New Puritans; Nocebo; Nordic walking; Nu-metal; Nutraceutical; Nutrigenomics; Obesogenic; Open source; Orexin; Orthorexia; Oscillon; Otpotss; Overclass

P to Z

Padania; Palermo scale; Permission-based marketing; Personal telco; Phage therapy; Pharmacogenomics; Pharming; Phen-fen; Phishing; Phytoremediation; Podcasting; Polyamory; Polychronic; Polypill; Portal site; Prebuttal; Presenteeism; Prion; Probiotic; Pronoia; Prosumer; Proteome; Proteomics; Psytrance; Push technology; PVR; Qubit; Raw foodism; Reality fighting; Recreational grief; Regender; Retail anthropologist; RFID; Riskometer; SARS; School gate mum; Screenager; Set-top box; Shock and Awe; Sky-surfing; Smart gun; Social software; Solutions journalism; Sonic cruiser; Sonofusion; Sous-Sherpa; Spamdexing; Spermodynamics; Spintronics; Squalamine; Sub-prime; Synthespian; T-ray; Teamspace; Techgnosis; Technorealist; Televersity; Therapeutic cloning; Thin client; Thinspiration; Third Way; Toxicogenomics; Traffic evaporation; Triple-drug therapy; Tweenager; Tweenie; Twixter; UMTS; Upsizing; Upskilling; Urban gaming; V-mail; Viatical; Vlogger; WAP; Warchalking; Water banking; Water war; Web ring; Webucation; Weightless economy; Wet day centre; Wikitorial; Xenotransplantation; Xenozoonosis; Yuhangyuan; Zoochosis; Zorbing

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WEIRD WORDS SECTION INDEX

The word weird in this section is interpreted broadly to mean words that refer to obscure or outlandish subjects, are in themselves rare, or which look odd.

A to F

Absquatulate; Acronychal; Acrophony; Adipocere; Albertopolis; Alegar and beeregar; Alexipharmic; Analemmatic; Anamorphosis; Anfractuosity; Ansible; Antimacassar; Apocope; Arenaceous; Astrobleme; Ataraxy; Atrabilious; Austringer; Autohagiography; Bafflegab; Balderdash; Bankrupt; Bant; Barmecide; Bathykolpian; Blackguard; Blackmail; Blatherskite; Bloviate; Blurb; Bodacious; Bodger; Bonzer; Boondoggle; Bootless; Borborygmus; Boscage; Boustrophedonic; Bowdlerise; Brimborion; Brobdingnagian; Bromopnea; Brummagem; Bruxer; Cachinnatory; Cacography; Cadastral; Cadge; Caitiff; Callipygian; Callithumpian; Caltrop; Cancrine; Carphology; Cataglottism; Cataract; Catoptromancy; Cheat-bread; Chiliastic; Chrestomathy; Clerihew; Clinquant; Cockaigne; Cockamamie; Codswallop; Cohobation; Collyrium; Colophonian; Contumely; Copacetic; Costard; Costus; Coxcomb; Cribellate; Cruciverbalist; Cyborg; Cymbocephalic; Dactylonomy; Daft-days; Deasil; Deipnosophist; Deray; Destrier; Digamy; Discombobulate; Donnybrook; Dracontology; Droogish; Dumbledore; Dwile flonking; Edacious; Eleemosynary; Ell; Emmet and grockle; Empasm; Engastrimyth; Estovers; Etaoin shrdlu; Eyot; Fanfaronade NEW ; Fantods; Farb; Fimbriated; Financephalograph; Flabbergasted; Flagitious; Flibbertigibbet; Floccinaucinihilipilification; Florilegium; Fogou; Folderol; Foudroyant; Frigorific; Funambulist; Furbelow; Fustigate; Fustilugs

G to O

Gaberlunzie; Gadzooks; Gafiate; Galligaskins; Gallimaufry; Gantlope; Garbler; Gargalesis; Gazebo; Gazump; Ginglyform; Gobbledygook or Gobbledegook; Gobo; Gomer; Gongoozler; Gooding; Gowpen; Gremlin; Grok; Groze; Guiser; Gurning; Ha-ha; Haberdasher; Haggard; Handfasting; Haplology; Haptic; Haruspex; Hebesphenomegacorona; Hebetude; Higgledy-piggledy; Higgler; Hobbledehoy; Hocus-pocus; Honeyfuggle; Honorificabilitudinitatibus; Hornswoggle; Houghmagandy; Humdudgeon; Humongous; Hypnobioscope; Ice house; Ichthyophagous; In silico; Incarnadine; Incunabulum; Infundibulum; Inglenook; Ingrained; Insinuendo; Interrobang; Isabelline; Jackalope; Jackanapes; Jactitation; Jaculation; Janus-faced; Jingoism; Jobbernowl; Josser; Katzenjammer; Kelemenopy; Kerfuffle; Killick; Knucker; Labretifery; Lackadaisical; Lagniappe; Latrociny; Leiotrichous; Leucipottomy; Liripipe; Lithophone; Logan stone; Lollygag; Lycanthropy; Macaronic; Machicolation; Macilent; Magiric; Makebate; Mallemaroking; Maritorious; Maundy; Megilp; Merrythought; Metoposcopist; Mimsy; Mithridate; Mortsafe; Mudlark; Mugwump; Mulligrubs; Mundungus; Musterdevillers; Nepenthes; Nescient; Nipperkin; Nubbing-cheat; Obdiplostemonous; Obnubilate; Oche; Octothorpe; Olitory; Ombre; Omphaloskepsis; Onomatopoeia; Onychophagist; Oojah; Orismology; Orotund; Orrery; Oyez

P to Z

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Palimpsest; Pall-mall; Panglossian; Panjandrum; Panorama; Pantechnicon; Paralipsis; Paraphernalia; Paregoric; Pastinaceous; Pecksniffian; Perverb; Petard; Petrichor; Pettifogging; Phenology; Picadil; Picayune; Piepowder; Pilgarlic; Pinchbeck; Pocillovy; Pogonotrophy; Popinjay; Poppycock; Poppysmic; Portolan; Pound; Preposterous; Pridian; Pyknic; Quidnunc; Quodlibet; Rasorial; Retronym; Rhadamanthine; Rhinotillexomania; Rhopalic; Rigmarole; Rodomontade; Roo; Sabermetrician; Saggar; Salmagundi; Sarcophagus; Scalene; Scallywag or Scalawag; Sciolist; Scofflaw; Scombroid; Scrimshaw; Seersucker; Semordnilap; Sennight; Serendipity; Sesquipedalian; Sferics; Shenanigan; Simoleon; Sisyphean; Sitooterie; Skedaddle; Skimmington; Skulduggery; Slubberdegullion; Smouch; Snickersnee; Snollygoster; Sockdolager; Solar sail; Sophrosyne; Spanghew; Sphairistike; Sphragistics; Spifflicate; Spondulicks; Squabash; Steganography; Sternutatory; Stotting; Stramonium; Stylite; Surrebutter; Swazzle; Symploce; Synaesthete; Syzygy; Taghairm; Tantivy; Tatterdemalion; Tautochrone; Tawdry; Teetotum; Tergiversate; Termagant; Tetrapyloctomy; Thaumaturgy; Thelemic; Therianthrope; Tiffin; Tintinnabulation; Titubation; Tontine; Trebuchet; Triacle; Truckle; Trussell; Tufthunter; Turducken; Turlough; Ullage; Ultracrepidarian; Umami; Unobtanium; Usufructuary; Vaccary; Vaccimulgence; Valetudinarian; Vellicate; Velocipedist; Vexillology; Volitation; Volvelle; Wassail; Wayzgoose; Welkin; Whilom; Will-o’-the-wisp; Willy-nilly; Wittol; Wobbegong; Xenoglossy; Yaffle; Yclept; Zenzizenzizenzic; Zograscope

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GENERAL INDEX

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Misc

-ati; -ee; -gate; -ise versus -ize; -nomics; -stan; -wards versus -ward; @; 2C-B; 360-degree feedback

A

A test question gets grammarians arguing; A Word A Day (book review); A Word in Your Shell-Like (book review); Abbreviation lb for pound; Abbreviations; Abracadabra; Absquatulate; Acoustic shock; Acronychal; Acronyms; Acrophony; Adam’s off ox; Addiction; Adipocere; ADS Words of the Year, 2003; Aerobot; Affluence test; Aga saga; Agroterrorism; Aksed versus asked; Albertopolis; Alcolock; Alcopop; Alegar; Alexipharmic; All mouth and trousers; All my eye and Betty Martin; All wool and a yard wide; Allohistory; Almanac; Aluminium versus aluminum; Ambient; Ambient advertising; America In So Many Words (book review); American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition (book review); Amperkine; An Exceedance of Impactful Ignorals; Analemmatic; Anamorphosis; Android; Andropause; Anfractuosity; Angiogenesis inhibitor; Anorakish; Ansible; Antarctic Dictionary (book review); Antimacassar; Apocope; Apology; Apoptosis; Apostrophes; April; Archaeon; Arenaceous; Areologist; Arfanarf; Argey-bargey; Arithmetic symbols; Arms akimbo; Arsenal; Artefact versus artifact; Artilect; As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; Ascian; Asian Brown Cloud; Astrobleme; Asymmetrical warfare; At sign, @; At sixes and sevens; Ataraxy; Atrabilious; Aubergine; Aunt Sally; Austringer; Autohagiography; Auxetic

B

Bafflegab; Bail out; Balderdash; Ban; Banana; Bankrupt; Bant; Barbecue; Barking mad; Barmecide; Bated breath; Bathykolpian; Beanpole family; Bear up; Beat the band; Bee’s knees; Beeregar; Beg the question; Beggar on horseback; Bells and whistles; Besmitten; Best bib and tucker; Between You and I: a Little Book of Bad English (book review); Beyond the pale; Big Bang II; Big cheese; Big girl’s blouse; Big pond; Bill, the; Billy-o; Bint; Bioinformatics; Bioinvasion; Biomimetics; Biomusicology; Biophilia; Biopiracy; Biopunk; Biosurgery; Birds and the bees; Birtism; Bistro; Black Maria; Black-water rafting; Blackbirding; Blackguard; Blackmail; Blairism; Blatherskite; Blends; Blighty; Blivet and nitnoid; Blobitecture; Blockbuster; Bloke; Blooming English (book review); Blot one’s copy book; Bloviate; Blow the gaff; Blu-Ray; Blue; Blue blood; Blue moon; Blue revolution; Blue-plate special; Bluejacking; Bluestocking; Bluetooth; Blurb; Bob’s your uncle; Bobby; Bodacious; Bodger; Boffin; Bog-standard; Bogus; Bohemian; Boilerplate; Bombastic; Bonce; Bonzer; Boodle bag; Bookcrossing; Books without the letter e; Boondoggle; Boot; Bootleg; Bootless; Borborygmus; Boscage; Boss; Bossy; Botnet; Boustrophedonic; Bowdlerise; Boycott; Braggadocious; Brain fingerprinting; Brainstorming; Brand; Brand spanking new; Brass monkey weather; Brass ring; Brassed off; Brassiere; Break a leg; Break one’s duck; Break-out space; Briar pipe; Bribery; Bridie; Bright; Brimborion; Brobdingnagian; Bromide; Bromopnea; Brouhaha; Brown study; Brownie points; Brummagem; Bruxer; Buck up; Buckley’s chance; Budget; Buff; Bug; Bulls and bears; Bumbershoot; Bumf; Bun fight; Bunny rabbit; Bus; Business theatre; Bustard; Butler; Butter no parsnips; Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth; By and large; By Jove; By the great horn spoon

C

Cachinnatory; Cack-handed; Cacography; Cadastral; Cadge; Café Scientifique; Caffeinol; Cahoot; Caitiff; Calendar terms; Callipygian; Callithumpian; Caltrop; Cambridge International Dictionary of English on CD-ROM (review); Camera; Camp; Campaign; Can you really link a word to a year?; Cancrine; Captology; Carnage; Carnal; Carpet; Carphology; Carry the can; Case in point; Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (book review); Cassell Dictionary of Word Histories (book review); Cast aspersions; Cat’s mother, the; Cataglottism; Cataract; Catawampus; Catbird seat; Cater-cornered; Catoptromancy; Caudle; Cedar revolution; Celtic Tiger; Centrifical force; Chad; Chaise longue or chaise lounge; Chance your arm; Charivari; Charley horse; Chav; Cheap at half the price; Cheat-bread; Chemical; Chemtrail; Chew the scenery; Chiliastic; Chill Can; Chillaxing; Chip off the old block; Chip on one’s shoulder; Chook; Chow; Chrestomathy; Chronicle of American Literature (book review); Chronopsychology; Chronotherapy; Chunder; Church key; Cidermaking terms; Citing online sources; Claptrap; Cleanskin; Clerihew; Clinical governance; Clinquant; Clone; Cloud nine; Cobblers; Cobot; Cock a snook; Cock-up; Cockaigne; Cockamamie; Cockles of your heart; Codswallop; Cohobation; Cold shoulder; Collaboratory; Collins English Dictionary; Collyrium; Colon; Colonel; Colophonian; Colour; Colour words; Column; Come a cropper; Come hell or high water; Commentariat; Commercial at @; Community currency; Community marriage policy; Compleat v complete; Computer-assisted journalism; Confide; Consilience; Contumely; Convict Words (book review); Convivium; Cooked; Cool; Cool Britannia; Coopetition; Cooties; Cop; Cop-out; Copacetic; Coppice; Cordial; Cosmeceutical; Costard; Costus; Countryside; Coup; Covenant marriage; Coxcomb; Crackpot; Crap; Cream; Cream crackered; Credible; Cribellate; Crimony; Crisis memoir; Crocodile tears; Cronyism; Cruciverbalist; Crumpet; Crunk; Crush; Cry all the way to the bank; Cull; Culture; Culture jamming; Curate’s egg; Curmudgeon; Curriculum; Cut the mustard; Cut your stick; Cyber-; Cyberchondria; Cyberloafing; Cyberventing; Cyborg; Cymbocephalic

D

Dab hand; Dactylonomy; Daft-days; Dangerous; Darby and Joan; Darwin Day; Data archaeology; Data haven; Datacasting; Dauncy; Davy Jones’ locker; Dead as a doornail; Dead cat bounce; Dead ringer; Deadhead; Dealybob; Dear John letter; Deasil; Death toll; Decade names; Deep Web; Deipnosophist; Dekko; Demutualisation; Denglisch; Dental Spa; Depraved and Insulting English (book review); Deprecate; Deray; Derby; Destrier; Devil to pay, the; Diabesity; Dibs; Dichotomy; Dick’s hatband; Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (book review); Dictionary of New Zealand English (book review); Diddler; Digamy; Digital divide; Digs; Diplomacy; Discombobulate; Disintermediation; Dog Days and Dandelions (book review); Dog in the manger; Dog’s life, it’s a; Dog-and-pony show; Dog-whistle politics; Dogme 95; Dogsbody; Doh!; Domesday; Done and done; Donkey’s years; Donnybrook; Doolally tap; Doozy; Dopp kit; DOTS; Double cream; Double-dog dare you; Doughboy; Doula; Down to the wire; Downshifter; Dracontology; Drag; Draw a blank; Dreaded lurgi; Dress-up Thursday; Dressed to the nines; Drive-by-wire; Droogish; Drop the other shoe!; Drum and Gaff; Dry run; Dubious Doublets (book review); Duck soup; Ducks and drakes; Duct tape NEW ; Duke’s mixture; Dumbledore; Dutch, terms using; DVD; Dwile flonking; Dyspraxia

E

E- prefix; E-day; E-num; E-science; E-voting; Easy pickings; Eat crow; Eat humble pie; Eat one’s hat; Eat one’s heart out; Eat one’s words; Eat your cake and have it; Eats, Shoots and Leaves (book review); Eavesdropper; Ebonics; Echo boomer; Eco-cement; Ecofact; Ecologism; Economy-class syndrome; Econophysics; Edacious; Egg on one’s face; Eggplant; Egregious; Eighty-six; Election words; Electroclash; Electronic cinema; Electronic paper; Electrosmog; Eleemosynary; Elephant and Castle; Ell; Embuggerance; Emmet; Emo; Empasm; Endocrine disrupter; Engastrimyth; Engine; English legal language; Enormity; Enquire versus inquire; Enthuse; Enthusiast; Entitlement card; Envirocrime; Envision versus envisage; Esprit de l’escalier; Estovers; Etaoin shrdlu; Ethnic; Euro-creep; Euroland; Evernet; Evidence-based education; Evo-devo; Exception that proves the rule; Exformation; Exoplanet; Experience; Experimental travel; Extranet; Eyerobics; Eyot

F

Fabless; Face the music; Facile; Fainites; Fair cop; Fair dinkum; Fair to middling; Family; Fan; Fanfaronade NEW ; Fantods; Farb; Farrago; Fashionista; Fast and loose; Fat lady sings, it ain’t over till; Faze; Feckless; Feebate; Fiddler’s Green; Fiddlesticks; Fight like Kilkenny cats; Fimbriated; Financephalograph; Find the lady; Fine fettle; First, second and third worlds; Flabbergasted; Flagitious; Flash mob; Flibbertigibbet; Floccinaucinihilipilification; Florilegium; Flummox; Fog; Fogou; Folderol; Folksonomy; Foot the bill; Footfall; For appearance’s sake; For Pete’s sake; Forest; Forte; Forthwith; Foudroyant; Four new editions of British dictionaries (book reviews); Frantic Semantics (book review); Free-running; Freecycling; Freegan; Frequency of initial letters; Frick and Frack; Frigorific; Frisbee; Fro; From whence; Fuddy-duddy; Full monty, the; Funambulist; Funk; Funner and funnest; Furbelow; Fusion inhibitor; Fustigate; Fustilugs; Fuzz

G

Gaberlunzie; Gadget; Gadzooks; Gafiate; Gallant soldiers; Galligaskins; Gallimaufry; Gander; Gandy dancer; Gantlope; Garbler; Gargalesis; Garner’s Modern American Usage (book review); Gazebo; Gazump; Gazunder; Gender-neutral pronouns; Gene chip; Genetic pollution; Genetic underclass; Geosequestration; Get one’s goat; Ghost names; Gig; Gingerly; Ginglyform; Git; Give it some welly; Give no quarter; Global dimming; Global distillation; Globesity; Glycomics; Go hence without day; Goat and Compasses; Gobbledygook; Gobbledygook (book review); Gobo; Gobsmacked; Going south; Going to hell in a handbasket; Gold-collar worker; Golden rice; Golf; Gomer; Gongoozler; Good egg; Gooding; Goody two shoes; Gordon Bennett; Gordon Brown; Gorge-walking; Gormless; Gorp; Gotham; Gowpen; Grapefruit; Grass roots; Grass widow; Graveyard shift; Gravitas; Gravy train; Great Scott; Greek to me, it’s (all); Green English (book review); Green famine; Green roof; Green room; Green-ink letter; Gremlin; Grey goo; Grey literature; Grid; Grid computing; Grime; Grist for the mill; Grockle; Grok; Groovy; Ground zero; Groundswell; Groze; Grub; Gry words; Gubernatorial; Guerrilla gig; Guff; Guinea pig; Guiser; Gurning; Gussied up; Gutkha; Gyp; Gyp

H

Ha-ha; Haberdasher; Hackneyed; Haggard; Hairbrained; Halloween words; Hammer and tongs; Handfasting; Handicapped; Hang a Louie; Hang fire; Haplology; Happy as a clam; Happy as a sandboy; Happy as Larry; Happy slapping; Haptic; Hard graft; Harsh one’s mellow; Haruspex; Hat trick; Hatchet Jobs and Hardball (book review); Have one’s guts for garters; Have one’s work cut out; Have your cake and eat it; Head over heels; Heat; Heavens to Betsy; Hebesphenomegacorona; Hebetude; Heebie-jeebies; Heighth; Hem and haw; Herb; Heroin chic; Hidden hunger; Higgledy-piggledy; Higgler; High jinks; High Street; Hill of beans; Hillbillies; Hippy; His nibs; Historical forms of the possessive; Hobbledehoy; Hobo; Hobson’s choice; Hocus-pocus; Holy smoke; Home zone; Homeshoring; Honeyfuggle; Honeymoon; Honorificabilitudinitatibus; Hoo-ha; Hooligan; Hooplehead; Hop the twig; Hopefully; Horlicks; Horns of a dilemma; Hornswoggle; Horsefeathers; Hot desking; Hot dog; Houghmagandy; How many words in the language?; How We Talk (book review); How words enter the language; How’s your father; Huckleberry; Hue; Hue and cry; Hullaballoo; Humble pie; Humdudgeon; Humongous; Hundred days; Hungarian notation; Hunker down; Hunky-dory; Hush puppy; Hybrid CD; Hydrodyne process; Hydrogen economy; Hypercar; Hypernova; Hypnobioscope

I

I could care less; I feel good; I should cocoa; I-mode; Ice house; Ichthyophagous; Identity theft; Idioms from milling; Immense chemical names; Impeach; In cold blood; In like Flynn; In Other Words; In silico; In the field; Incarnadine; Incunabulum; Indian summer; Influenza; Information fatigue syndrome; Information poor; Information rich; Informavore; Infowar; Infundibulum; Inglenook; Ingrained; Initialisms; Injecting room; Inkhorn terms; Inplacement; Insinuendo; Insult; Interesterification; Intermercial; Internet; Internet 2; Interrobang; Intranet; Iraqification; Iris code; Irish twins; Irregardless; Irritable male syndrome; Isabelline; It’s (all) Greek to me; It’s a dog’s life; Ivory tower

J

Jackalope; Jackanapes; Jacob’s join; Jactitation; Jaculation; Jalopy; Jamoke; Janus-faced; Jargon of meetings; Jazz; Jejune; Jerusalem artichoke; Jesse’s Word of the Day (book review); Jesus H Christ; Jimmy a lock; Jingoism; Jinx; Jobbernowl; Joe; John; John Doe; Johnny-on-the-spot; Jolly hockey-sticks; Josser; Joystick; Jubilee; Juju & jujube; Jukebox; Jumbo; Jump the shark; Jumper; Jumping Jehoshaphat; Jury rigged

K

Kangaroo court; Katy bar the door; Katzenjammer; Keep mum; Keep your eyes peeled; Keep your nose to the grindstone; Kelemenopy; Kelsey’s nuts; Kerfuffle; Ketchup versus catsup; Kibibyte; Kibosh; Kick the bucket; Killick; Kilometre; Kilroy was here; Kilter; King Charles’s Head; Kip; Kiss the gunner’s daughter; Kit and kaboodle; Kitty; Kitty-corner; Kludge; Knock on wood; Know your onions; Knucker

L

Labretifery; Lackadaisical; Lagniappe; Language and the Internet (book review); Language in Danger (book review); Language Visible (book review); Language War, The (book review); Lanthanide names; Latrociny; lb; Lead-pipe cinch; Lead-swinger; Left holding the bag; Legal language in England; Leiotrichous; Leisure sickness; Let the cat out of the bag; Leucipottomy; Lewd; Life of riley; Lifestyle drug; Lightcraft; Lightning in a bottle; Like a banshee; Like the dickens; Likeness; Linguistic profiling; Liripipe; List; Lithophone; Little Alphabet Book (book review); Living daylights, the; Lizzie Tish (or Tizzy Lish); Loblolly boy; Lock, stock and barrel; Logan stone; Lollygag; Long arm of the law; Long johns; Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (book review); Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (book review); Loo; Lope; Lycanthropy; Lynch

M

M-commerce; M-government; Macaronic; Machicolation; Machinima; Macilent; Mad as a hatter; Mad as hops; Magiric; Magnetar; Mail; Make a hames of something; Make ends meet; Make no bones about it; Makebate; Making love; Malarky; Mallemaroking; Man date; Mare’s nest; Maritorious; Mash note; Mathom; Maundy; Mayfair; McGuffin; McJob; MDR-TB; Mechatronics; Medium; Meeting room jargon; Megilp; Meldrew; Meme; MEMS; Merismus; Meritocracy; Merkin; Merrythought; Mesh radio; Mess; Metamediary; Methods of word formation; Metoposcopist; Metrosexual; Micro-wind turbine; Microcredit; Microtransaction; Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions; Migrate; Millennium; Millennium bug; Millstone around one’s neck; Milquetoast; Mimsy; Mind the Gaffe (book review); Mind your beeswax; Mind your Ps and Qs; Misandrist; Misogynist; Misomusist; Misplaced Modifiers; Missing opposites; Mistress; Miswanting; Mithridate; Mobisode; Mogadored; Moggie; Molecular Archaeology; Molecular farming; Molecular gastronomy; Moletronics; Mollycoddling; Mollydooker; Moment; Mondegreens; Money words; Monkey’s uncle; Monkey’s wedding; Monstering; Mooch; Mooncalf; Moonshine; Moot point; More than one way to skin a cat; Morganatic; Mortarboard; Mortsafe; Motor; Mountainboarding; Mountebank; Moxie; Much of a Muchness; Mudlark; Mufti; Mugwump; Mullered; Mulligrubs; Mummer; Mumpsimus; Mundungus; Murder; Murphy’s Law; Muscle dysmorphia; Musterdevillers; My giddy aunt

N

Nadgers; Naked Street; Names for the next decade; Naming the rarest of atoms; Nano; Nanopublishing; Napping; NaSSA; Nauseous versus nauseated; Nave; Navvy; Nebbishy; Needs must when the devil drives; Nellie; Nepenthes; Nescient; Neurobics; Neuroeconomics; Neuromarketing; Neurotheology; Never Let a Fool Kiss You, or a Kiss Fool You (book review); New; New Oxford Dictionary of English (book review); New Oxford Thesaurus of English (book review); New Penguin English Dictionary (book review); New Puritans; New York minute; Niche; Nick of time; Niggardly; Nineteen to the dozen; Nipperkin; Nit-picking; Nitty-gritty; No soap; Nocebo; Nonce; Nordic walking; Norfolk Dialect (book review); Nosy parker; Not by a long chalk; Not on your Nellie; Not this little black duck!; Nothing like leather; Nu-metal; Nubbing-cheat; Nutraceutical; Nutrigenomics

O

Obdiplostemonous; Obesogenic; Obnubilate; Oche; Ocker; Octothorpe; OK; Old Dart; Olitory; Ollie ollie oxen free; Ombre; Omnibus; Omphaloskepsis; On a wing and a prayer; On all fours; On one’s tod; On pins and needles; On tenterhooks; On the Adrian; On the beam; On the fritz; On the QT; On the wagon; On your uppers; One another; One fell swoop; One might may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; Oneirodynia; Onomatopoeia; Onychophagist; Oojah; Oops, Pardon Mrs Arden! (book review); Open source; Opposite of woman-hater; Orange; Orexin; Organic; Organogram; Orientated versus oriented; Orismology; Orotund; Orrery; Orthorexia; Oscillon; Otpotss; Out of sorts; Out of whack; Over a barrel; Over the moon; Over the yardarm; Overclass; Oxford comma; Oxford Dictionary of Allusions (book review); Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases (book review); Oxford Dictionary of New Words (book notice); Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang (book review); Oxford Dictionary of Slang (book review); Oxford Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Wordpower Guide.; Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM, Version Two (review); Oxford English Dictionary Online (review); Oxford Guide to Plain English (book review); Oxford Guide to Word Games (book review); Oxford Guide to World English (book review); Oxford Pop-up English Language Reference Shelf (CD-ROM review); Oxford World English Dictionary Shelf (CD-ROM review); Oyez

P

Padania; Pagan; Pain versus pine; Pair of pants; Palermo scale; Palimpsest; Pall-mall; Palooka; Pander; Panel; Panglossian; Panhandle; Panic; Panjandrum; Panorama; Pantechnicon; Pants; Paralipsis; Paraphernalia; Paregoric; Passenger; Pastinaceous; Patient; Peanut gallery; Pear-shaped; Pecksniffian; People Versus Persons; Permission-based marketing; Personal prounouns with possessive antecdents; Personal telco; Peruse; Perverb; Petard; Peter out; Petrichor; Pettifogging; Phage therapy; Pharmacogenomics; Pharming; Phen-fen; Phenology; Phenomenon; Philogynist; Phishing; Phytoremediation; Picadil; Picayune; Pie; Pie in the sky; Piepowder; Piffy on a rock bun; Pig in a poke; Pigs might fly; Pilgarlic; Pinchbeck; Pinkie; Piping hot; Pitch; Plain English Campaign Awards 2002; Plain English Campaign Awards 2003; Plain English Guide (book review); Play fast and loose; Play it by ear; Pleased as Punch; Plonk; Plurals in -en; Po-faced; Pocillovy; Pocket Fowler (book review); Podcasting; Pogey; Pogonotrophy; Point-blank; Polari; Policy wonk; Pollyanna; Polyamory; Polychronic; Polypill; Pom; Pop goes the weasel; Pop one’s clogs; Popinjay; Poppycock; Poppysmic; Portal site; Portfolio; Portolan; Posh; Positronic; Possessive apostrophes; Posset; Potboiler; Pound; Pound abbreviation lb; Power of Babel (book review); Prat; Prebuttal; Precision of Lexicographers; Predicting New Words (book review); Predominately versus predominantly; Preposterous; Presenteeism; Presidential Voices (book review); Pretty; Prevent; Pridian; Prion; Probiotic; Problemsome; Pronoia; Pronunciation of sugar and sure; Proof of the pudding; Prosumer; Proteome; Proteomics; Ps and Qs, mind your; Psytrance; Pull (out) the plug; Pulling one’s leg; Punctuation and quotation marks; Purl; Push technology; Push the envelope; Put on (the) dog; Put the kibosh on something; PVR; Pyknic

Q

Q followed by U; Quack; Quantum; Qubit; Queen of Spain’s Legs; Queer somebody’s pitch; Quidnunc; Quiz; Quodlibet

R

Railway words; Raining cats and dogs; Ramping cat; Range; Rare earth names; Rasorial; Raw foodism; Read the riot act; Real; Real McCoy, the; Reality fighting; Recent British English dictionaries (book reviews); Recreational grief; Red-letter day; Regender; Replica; Retail anthropologist; Retort; Retronym; RFID; Rhadamanthine; Rhinotillexomania; Rhopalic; Rhykenology; Riff-raff; Right as rain; Rigmarole; Ringer; Riskometer; Road metal; Robot; Rocket; Rod; Rodomontade; Roger; Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (book review); Rogue; Roo; Rookery; Ross-on-Wye; Round-robin; Rule of thumb; Run of the mill; Rush the growler; Ruthless

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S

Sabermetrician; Saggar; Salad days; Salmagundi; Sam Hill; San fairy ann; Sand; Sandy-grey russet; Sarcophagus; SARS; Saved by the bell; Say (or cry) uncle; Scalene; Scallywag; School gate mum; Sciolist; Scofflaw; Scombroid; Scot free; Scotch; Screaming ab-dabs; Screenager; Scrimshaw; Scuttlebutt; Sea change; Seaborgium; See a man about a dog; Seersucker; Segue; Semordnilap; Send to Coventry; Sennight; Sentimental; Serendipity; Sesquipedalian; Set-top box; Settle a score; Sferics; Sha’n’t versus shan’t; Shade; Shag; Shaggy dog story; Shake a stick at; Shank’s mare; Shanty; Shenanigan; Shilling ordinary; Shindig; Shit; Shivaree; Shock and Awe; Shoo-in; Short shrift; Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (book review); Shufti; Sick as a dog; Silicon; Silver bullet; Simoleon; Single cream; Singular or plural verb with none; Singular they; Sisyphean; Sitooterie; Sitting by Nellie; Sixes and sevens; Skedaddle; Skell; Skimmington; Skin a cat; Skive; Skivvies; Skosh; Skulduggery; Skunk works; Sky-blue pink; Sky-surfing; Slang; Slang of Sin (book review); Slayer Slang (book review); Sleep tight; Sleeping one’s head into train oil; Sling one’s hook; Slubberdegullion; Smart Alec; Smart gun; Smarty pants; Smiley; Smouch; Snickersnee; Snit; Snob; Snollygoster; So dull you could ride to China on them; Social software; Sock it to them; Sockdolager; Soft sawder; Sojourner; Solar sail; Solutions journalism; Sonic cruiser; Sonofusion; Sophisticated; Sophrosyne; Sous-Sherpa; Sow one’s wild oats; Spade; Spamdexing; Spanghew; Spatchcock; Speak: A Short History of Languages (book review); Spelling bee; Spendthrift; Spermodynamics; Sphairistike; Sphragistics; Spick and span; Spiff; Spifflicate; Spinster; Spintronics; Spitting feathers; Spitting image; Spiv; Spoil; Spoken Here (book review); Spondulicks; Sport one’s oak; Squabash; Squalamine; Square; Squaw; Staple; Stars and garters; Start from scratch; State of the art; Stationary versus stationery; Steal one’s thunder; Steganography; Stemwinder; Step-; Sternutatory; Stick-in-the-mud; Sticky wicket; Stone the crows; Stonking; Stool pigeon; Stories of English (book review); Stotting; Stramonium; Stylite; Sub-prime; Sublime; Suburb; Suffonsified; Sulphur; Sunday throat; Surrebutter; Swag; Swain; Swamper; Swashbuckling; Swazzle; Swearing on one’s testicles; Sycophant; Symbols in arithmetic; Symploce; Synaesthete; Synecdoche and metonymy; Synthespian; Syzygy

T

T-ray; Tabloid; Tacky; Taghairm; Take the mickey; Take the piss; Talk turkey; Tall tale; Tantivy; Tapping the Admiral; Target; Tarred with the same brush; Tatterdemalion; Tautochrone; Tawdry; Tax; Tchotchke; Teaching one’s grandmother to suck eggs; Teamspace; Techgnosis; Technorealist; Teetotal; Teetotum; Tele-; Televersity; Teller; Tempest in a teapot; Tergiversate; Termagant; Terms using Dutch; Terraforming; Tetrapyloctomy; Thaumaturgy; The Adventure of English (book review); The Dimwit’s Dictionary (book review); The endings -ise and -ize; The Grouchy Grammarian (book review); The Meaning of Everything (book review); The New Oxford American Dictionary; The Superior Person’s Third Book of Words; The Unfolding of Language; The whole megillah; Thelemic; Theodolite; Therapeutic cloning; Therianthrope; They Have a Word for It (book review); Thin client; Thinspiration; Third Way; Third word ending in gry; Three sheets in the wind; Three-card monte; Three-card trick; Through the grapevine; Through the mill; Throw in the towel; Tickety-boo; Tiddlywinks; Tide one over; Tiffin; Time out of mind; Tincture; Tinhorn; Tinker’s damn; Tint; Tintinnabulation; Tip; Titubation; To boot; To buy the farm; To wit; Toad-eater; Toe the line; Toe-rag; Ton; Tontine; Top notch; Touch wood; Tourism; Toxicogenomics; Tracklements; Tracks That Speak (book review); Traffic evaporation; Trebuchet; Triacle; Trip the light fantastic; Triple-drug therapy; Truckle; True facts; Trussell; Tsar; Tub thumping; Tufthunter; Turducken; Turkey; Turlough; Turn up for the book; Twee; Tweenager; Tweenie; Twentieth Century Words (book review); Twixter; Two guides to easily confused words

U

Ullage; Ultracrepidarian; Umami; UMTS; Un- versus In-; Understand; Union; Unobtanium; Until, till and ‘til; Up in Annie’s room; Up to snuff; Upsidaisy; Upsizing; Upskilling; Urban gaming; Usufructuary

V

V-mail; Vaccary; Vaccimulgence; Valetudinarian; Vamp; Vegelate; Vellicate; Velocipedist; Verbatim (book review); Vet; Vexillology; Viatical; Victorian trades; Vlogger; Volitation; Volvelle; Vote

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Bücher zur Kategorie:

Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology
UK Vereinigtes Königreich (Großbritannien u. Nordirland), Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Wörterverzeichnisse, Vocabulaires, Lists of words

amazon - Wörterverzeichnisse, Vocabulaires, Lists of words

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Duden - OGwbE
Duden - Oxford - Großwörterbuch Englisch
Oxford Großwörterbuch Englisch - CD-ROM

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Garrison, Webb B.
Casual Lex
An Informal Assemblage of Why We Say What We Say

(E?)(L1) http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN//etymologety01-20
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Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
Verlag: Nelson/Word Pub Group (1. Mai 2005)
Sprache: Englisch

Garrison, Webb B.
What's in a Word
Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 Everyday Words and Phrases

(E?)(L?) http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558538119/etymologety01-20
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Verlag: Rutledge Hill Press (Juni 2000)
248 Seiten
Taschenbuch
Sprache: Englisch

Garrison, Webb B.
Why You Say It
The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases

(E?)(L1) http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558531289/etymologety01-20
(E?)(L1) http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558531289/etymologety0f-21
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Taschenbuch: 356 Seiten
Verlag: Rutledge Hill Press,U.S. (November 1992)
Sprache: Englisch

Synopsis
This fascinating collection of anecdotes about words and phrases explains that a "bikini" was named after a Pacific island where the atomic bomb was tested because men who first saw it reacted as if it were an atom bomb - and that a person who "knows the ropes" is experienced like a sailor who mastered the complex tangle of ropes on a ship. The book contains stories behind over 600 everyday words and phrases such as ... "Shindig" - A veteran square dance caller will tell you that "bruised shins" result from the swigging feet of beginning dancers. A dance that leaves telltale marks on the lower legs of participants is a "shindig". "Alibi" - The word is taken straight from Latin and means "elsewhere". The perfect "alibi" is to prove one was "elsewhere" when the deed was done. And many more...

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Hodgson, Charles
Global Wording
The Fascinating Story of the Evolution of English

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Audio CD
Publisher: Renaissance Press; 1st edition edition (May 27 2008)
Language: English

Product Description
In the same engaging style and humor that has attracted 4.5 million downloads of the Podictionary podcast, Global Wording traces the development of our language using easily recognizable milestones such as Beowulf, William the Conqueror, Chaucer and Shakespeare. Rather than relying on scores of dates and boring facts, Hodgson instead punctuates his story with anecdotes about why these characters were so memorable, as well as interesting details on how we know what we know and the conditions of life over the years as they affected the growth of our language.

(E?)(L?) http://www.podictionary.com/

Horne, Alex
Word Watching
How to Break into the Dictionary

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Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
Verlag: Virgin Books (16. Februar 2010)
Sprache: Englisch

Kurzbeschreibung
The Oxford English Dictionary required Alex Horne to prove that his made-up words were being widely used before it would insert them into its venerable publication. Find out if any of Alex’s words make it into the OED in this delightful and entertaining book.

Über den Autor
Alex Horne co-created, writes and co-hosts the new comedy quiz We Need Answers airing soon on BBC4. He is widely renowned among critics, comics and audiences as a thoughtful and original stand-up, writer and solo performer and has many TV and radio credits under his belt. Alex's first book Birdwatchingwatching was published by Virgin Books in January 2009.

(E?)(L?) http://www.alexhorne.com/

Erstellt: 2010-02

Howard, Godfrey (Author)
Good English Guide
English Usage in the 1990s

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Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Macmillan (April 23, 1993)

The alphabetic reference book contains much of interest to word users.

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Jackson, Howard - Words, Meaning And Vocabulary
An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology

(E?)(L?) http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826460968/etymologety01-20
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Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi (31. Dezember 2001)
Sprache: Englisch

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Kacirk, Jeffrey
Altered English
Surprising Meanings of Familiar Words

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Gebundene Ausgabe: 240 Seiten
Verlag: Pomegranate Communications Inc, US (31. Januar 2002)
Sprache: Englisch

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Langenscheidt - e-Ewb
Langenscheidt - e-Euro-Wörterbuch
Englisch

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Langenscheidt e-Euro-Wörterbuch Englisch 4.0
System: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Medium: CD-ROM
Erscheinungsdatum: Juni 2003

Produktbeschreibung des Herstellers
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Langenscheidt - e-Gwb
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Collins - Englisch

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Langenscheidt Collins e-Großwörterbuch Englisch
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Muret Sanders e-Großwörterbuch Deutsch - Englisch. Langenscheidt. CD-ROM.
System: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Medium: CD-ROM
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Englisch-Deutsch / Deutsch-Englisch
UK-DE / DE-UK

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Langenscheidt e-Handwörterbuch Englisch 5.0. CD-ROM für Windows 95,98,2000,XP
System: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Medium: CD-ROM
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 2005

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Komfortables Nachschlagen aus anderen Programmen mithilfe der preisgekrönten Pop-up-Funktion
Wortschatz-Aktualisierung per Download aus dem Internet
Sprachausgabe in Top-Qualität - von Muttersprachlern gesprochen - zu rund 15.000 englischen Stichwörtern (britisches und amerikanisches Englisch)
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System: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP
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Über das Produkt
n mit neuer Schnellsuche: Erkennen von Mehrwortbegriffen, Wendungen und hunderttausenden von flektierten Wortformen - im Englischen und im Deutschen! -, die für die richtige Übersetzung auf ihre Grundform zurückgeführt werden (z.B. lud ... ein einladen invite)õKomfortables Nachschlagen aus anderen Programmen mithilfe der preisgekrönten Pop-up-FunktionõAktueller Inhalt der jüngsten Neubearbeitung des Taschenwörterbuches Englisch mit insgesamt rund 120.000 Stichwörtern und WendungenõTop-Sprachausgabe zu rund 15.000 englischen Stichwörtern (britisches und amerikanisches Englisch)õFür alle Computerbenutzer, die ein Standardwörterbuch für Englisch mit leistungsstarker Software suchenõENDõõ

Produktbeschreibungen
CD-ROM für Windows 95/98/NT4.0/2000/XP. Englisch-Deutsch/Deutsch-Englisch. Rund 120.000 Stichwörter und Wendungen. Zugriff auf hunderttausende von Wortformen. Wortschatz-Aktualisierung über das Internet. Erschienen 05.2002.

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Englisch-Deutsch / Deutsch-Englisch
DE-UK / UK-DE

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Langenscheidt Taschenwörterbuch
1.408 Seiten

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Englisch Englisch-Deutsch /Deutsch-Englisch
Hrsg. von der Langenscheidt-Redaktion
1440 S., rund 120.000 Stichw. u. Wendungen.
Extra: Langenscheidt Verb-Fix Englisch (3 vierseitige Schiebetafeln) Gebunden
Preis: 22,90 Euro

Langenscheidt - Uwb
Langenscheidt - Universal-Wörterbuch
Englisch
DE-UK / UK-DE

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Gebundene Ausgabe: 672 Seiten
Verlag: Langenscheidt, Mchn. (1. Februar 2008)
Sprache: Deutsch, Englisch

Kurzbeschreibung Das neu bearbeitete Universal-Wörterbuch Englisch, herausgegeben vom Langenscheidt Fremdsprachenverlag beinhaltet über 36.000 Stichwörter und Wendungen mit klaren Bedeutungsdifferenzierungen und zahlreichen Anwendungsbeispielen. Neben dem allgemeinen Wortschatz gibt es viele Einträge aus den Bereichen Reise, Freizeit, Gastronomie, Sport und Fitness. Komplett neu ist der große Extrateil mit vielen Reisetipps von A - Z. Außerdem umfasst das Wörterbuch Informationen zu Zahlen, Speisekarten und einen Mini-Dolmetscher für wichtige Sprechsituationen. Mit den blauen Stichwörtern ist eine sehr schnelle Orientierung möglich. Zum schnellen Nachschlagen auf Reisen und für den fremdsprachlichen Anfangsunterricht.

Liberman, Anatoly
Word Origins... and How We Know Them
Etymology for Everyone

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Taschenbuch: 336 Seiten
Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr (30. April 2009)
Sprache: Englisch

Synopsis
Word Origins is the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, an internationally acclaimed etymologist, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Part history, part how-to, and completely entertaining, Word Origins invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.

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Synopsis
"Millions of people want to know the origin of the words they use. Word columns in daily newspapers and numerous books attempt to satisfy their curiosity. Word histories are usually digested like pills: the user is interested in getting well, not in the chemistry of the prescribed medication. Those who send letters to the Editor also want a straight answer without bothering about how "editors" come by their knowledge. Therefore, they fail to realize that etymologies are seldom definitive and that the science of etymology is intensely interesting. Perhaps if someone explained to them that, compared to the drama of words, Hamlet is a light farce, they might develop a more informed attitude toward philological research and become students of historical linguistics rather than gullible consumers of journalists' pap." This is how Anatoly Liberman begins Etymology for Everyone, the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, a world-renowned etymologist, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Part history, part how-to, and completely entertaining, Etymology for Everyone invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.

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McKee, Richard
The Clan of the Flapdragon and other Adventures in Etymology
by B.M.W. Schrapnel, PhD

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Gebundene Ausgabe: 224 Seiten
Verlag: University of Alabama Press (November 1997)
Sprache: Englisch

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With the advent of B. M. W. Schrapnel, Ph.D., it seems that etymology has found its P. D. Q. Bach. Just as Peter Schickele - "discoverer" of several manuscripts of P. D. Q. Bach, last child of the prolific Johann Sebastian - lampoons baroque music and its performance with P. D. Q.'s schleptets and serenudes, so does Richard McKee, creator of B. M. W., parody Safirean language mavens, and nearly everyone else. The essays in "The Clan of the Flapdragon" and their accompanying "letters from readers," which originally appeared in the literary magazine Oasis, are dense, satiric, and at times quite academic. Does the "Bop 'Til You Drop" bumpersticker on a late-model Lincoln advocate that you dance all night, jazz it up till the wee hours, or "fornicate until you faint"? If poon is a type of East Indian tree and tang is (a) a Chinese dynasty; (b) the small end of a knife; or (c) a verb meaning "to ring loudly," then "how in the bloody hell poontang is synonymous with sexual intercourse ... beats the poop out of me!" In "What to Buy Your Wordmonger," Schrapnel recommends a specific Shakespeare edition: "It is a 1937 edition, but you know the Bard. He has not written a word lately." The same essay advises that "if noxious sedatives are your bent, there is The Bridges of Madison County (still) and its author's relapse, Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend." And in a speech to the International Society for Unbelievably Preposterous Prose, Schrapnel tells writers hoping to be published that "if you are unbelievably lucky and somehow drop your manuscript on the right desk at the right time ... well, think of all of those postage stamps as lottery tickets."

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The pseudonymous critic featured in this book satirizes a variety of subjects in and out of academe. It includes lampoons on writing, language, and literature in a spoof of contemporary culture.

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The Life of Language
The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die

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Taschenbuch: 400 Seiten
Verlag: Random House Reference (11. Juli 2006)
Sprache: Englisch

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If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, business, technology, and other forces of globalization expand and enrich the English language, forming thousands of new words every year. In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps.

· A word lover’s guide to etymology, written in a fun, informal, and accessible style
· An excellent resource for vocabulary building; a word's root helps readers understand its meaning
· Beautifully packaged paperback with French flaps

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Tulloch, Alexander (Autor)
Word Routes
Journeys Through Etymology

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Taschenbuch: 205 Seiten
Verlag: Peter Owen Ltd (9. Dezember 2004)
Sprache: Englisch

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Why aren't bald eagles bald? Why are gnomes in fact enormous? What connects Russian bears with videos? The answers can all be found in the history of the words themselves, and in Word Routes Alexander Tulloch gives us the fascinating stories behind more than five hundred of them. Language sleuth (meaning 'one who follows a path') Tulloch traces the routes of more than five hundred English words through time and across the globe. He shows us the surprising, amusing twists, turns and encounters between words on their long journeys into modern English. For instance the Keres, Greek goddesses of destruction who haunted Homeric battlefields dressed in blood-soaked robes, would probably be a little miffed to learn that the only decay with which they are today synonymous is tooth decay, or caries. Neither a straightforward dictionary of etymology nor a linear history of language, Word Routes an entertaining alphabetical guide to the stories behind many everyday words. It is an ideal book for journalists, teachers, historians or simply anyone who is interested in the fascinating story of the English language.

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Garrison, Webb B.
Why You Say It
The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases

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The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die

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Journeys Through Etymology