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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester.It concerns the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary under the editorship of James Murray and others, one aspect of which Winchester had previously written about in 1998 in The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words.
DICTIONARY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE: in which The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS, and ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS by EXAMPLES from the best WRITERS. To which are prefixed, A HISTORY of the LANGUAGE, and AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By SAMUEL JOHNSON, A.M. In TWO Volumes VOL. I
In 1755, Samuel Johnson published his A Dictionary of the English Language, which introduced standard spellings of words and usage norms. In 1828, Noah Webster published the American Dictionary of the English language to try to establish a norm for speaking and writing American English that was independent of the British standard. Within ...
Belles-lettres (French pronunciation: [bɛl lɛtʁ]) is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing.In the modern narrow sense, it is a label for literary works that do not fall into the major categories such as fiction, poetry, or drama.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
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The book is a "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet". [2] Rather than inventing new words, Adams and Lloyd picked a number of existing place-names and assigned interesting meanings to them, [3] meanings that can be regarded as on the verge of social existence and ready to become recognisable entities.
Ester Honig, a human interest reporter, sent out a photograph of herself to 40 different photo editors in 25 different countries and gave them a single task -- to make her look beautiful.