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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? In 2013, Josh Katz accumulated and visually mapped over 350,000 unique survey responses to questions about word choice and pronunciation throughout America. His dialect quiz quickly became the most viewed webpage in the history of the New York Times. In Speaking American, Katz offers a visual atlas of the American vernacular -- who says what,...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
From the Publisher: As Oxford's flagship American dictionary, the New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, hundreds of explanatory notes, and more than a thousand illustrations, this dictionary provides the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of American English available. The dictionary draws on the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"The easy-to-understand definitions in this dictionary are written using words you already know. Guidewords help you find the exact meaning you're looking for - fast! Thousands of idioms, phrases, and phrasal verbs are easy to find and understand. The most important words and meanings in English are clearly shown, and Study Pages explain details of grammar, usage, pronunciation, vocabulary, writing, and more."--Jacket.
6) A dictionary of catch phrases, American and British, from the sixteenth century to the present day
Author
Publisher
Stein and Day
Pub. Date
1986
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Details the origins of Noah Webster's first American English dictionary and the struggles of Webster and Ben Franklin to help unify the new country through language in the 1780s.
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