Articles with keyword "English language"
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Life Among the Lexicographers
The Dictionary of American Regional English records what is local about our language.
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From AOK to Oz
Slang prhases are being culled from music, movies, and sports for a comprehensive historical dictionary.
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Do You Speak American?
A new documentary investigates the different ways of speaking American English, from Maine and Ohio to Louisiana and California.
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Words. Words. Words.
A new edition of Samuel Johnson’s landmark dictionary illuminates his methods.
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The Everlasting Bible
New translations of the Bible have sought to make it accessible to everyone.
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Ain’t That the Truth
Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language.
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Chaste Beowulf
From Making Sense: Constructing Meaning in Early English, a selection of papers on Anglo-Saxon and other medieval texts edited by Antonette diPaolo Healey and Kevin Kiernan and published
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Violent But Charming
The Dictionary of Old English explores the brutality and elegance of our ancestral tongue.





