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Word by Word
The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Taschenbuch von Kory Stamper
Sprache: Englisch

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"We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don't want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets."

With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage.

Filled with fun facts-for example, the first documented usage of "OMG" was in a letter to Winston Churchill-and Stamper's own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America's foremost "irregardless" apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
"We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don't want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets."

With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage.

Filled with fun facts-for example, the first documented usage of "OMG" was in a letter to Winston Churchill-and Stamper's own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America's foremost "irregardless" apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
Über den Autor
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer who spent almost two decades writing dictionaries at Merriam-Webster. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The Washington Post, and she blogs regularly on language and lexicography at [...]
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Thema: Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781101970263
ISBN-10: 110197026X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stamper, Kory
Hersteller: Random House UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 203 x 131 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Kory Stamper
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2018
Gewicht: 0,232 kg
Artikel-ID: 121058372
Über den Autor
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer who spent almost two decades writing dictionaries at Merriam-Webster. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The Washington Post, and she blogs regularly on language and lexicography at [...]
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Thema: Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781101970263
ISBN-10: 110197026X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stamper, Kory
Hersteller: Random House UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 203 x 131 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Kory Stamper
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2018
Gewicht: 0,232 kg
Artikel-ID: 121058372
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