Whether you're studying for school, preparing a business presentation, or mingling at a cocktail party, your mastery of words is essential to your overall success. 1,500 Words in 15 Minutes a Day is the ultimate crash course in vocabulary building-a comprehensive day-by-day, week-by-week program that makes it easy to learn new words in the fastest time possible. The book's simple lesson plans are organized by related topics, highlighting common words used in business, politics, religion, and the arts. Each chapter includes clear definitions, pronunciations, and examples of usage, as well as self-quizzes and fascinating facts for a total learning experience.
A hilarious send–up of foreign tourist guides and English customs. Originally published in the 1930s, How to Do and Say in England is a spoof foreign tourist guide on how to speak and behave in England that goes wonderfully wrong. Following in the best tradition of Daisy Ashford and Mr. Cholmondley–Warner, our “German” author concocts model Englishmen Lord Smith, Lord Robinson, and Viscount Brown to demonstrate to the eager student just how to “get along quite first–hole with the Bestcircles of Lords and Miladys.” Topics of study include Society, Sport, Love, Humour, Animals, London, the Countryside, and Birthdays. Each lesson includes hilarious sample conversations among Smith, Robinson, and Brown at large in society.
Offering more than correct spellings and definitions, thisabridged version of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usagecontains 2,000 brief articles on the historical and current usagetrends of commonly confused and disputed words and phrases. Thearticles analyze the words, discuss alternatives, and offerpractical advice on using the words.
Based entirely on new research,The New International Webster'sStudent Dictionary is an up-to-date reference work that will become indispensable for school or college students. Compiled by experts under theguidance of an Advisory Commit-tee of distinguished linguistic scholars, the Student Dictionary contains over 85,000 entries with almost 1,000 illustrations, including maps, charts and tables. It provides thousands of illustrativequotations to help clarify word meanings, notes on troublesome or easily confused words and their usage, plus concise word roots and etymologies. Other features include clear and precise definitions, synonyms, an authoritative guide to punctuation and tables of Weights and Measures. The New International Websters Student Dictionary is designed to meet the language needs of all students with clear, precise definitions and entries printed in readable bold type.
Compiled from G.L. Apperson's original and painstaking research of nearly three thousand works dating as far back as the twelfth century and earlier, and built upon the foundations of the great Oxford English Dictionary, the Dictionary of Proverbs traces the origins and history of English proverbs and proverbial phrases. The original author has avoided the purely aphoristic and moral, which have little claim to proverbial use, and has codified this notoriously verbal rather than literary form in a way which earned the gratitude of the compilers of the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. The proverbs are grouped alphabetically and by subject, with copious cross-references throughout, rendering the dictionary as great a joy to consult as it is to browse through. This new edition includes over 500 new entries covering new examples, such as The customer is always right, There's no such thing as a free lunch, If it ain't broke, don't fix it, Life is too short to stuff a mushroom, and The family that prays togethe
