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Synoptical view of German and English words having the same etymology.
Select treatises of Martin Luther in the original German, with philological notes, and an essay on German and English etymology; - Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
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Synoptical view of German and English words having the same etymology.
@ - The History | Acronyms | Anachronisms and Time Travel | Casey's Court | Concepts from Fiction | Defenestration | Deja Vu | Deus Ex Machina | Drivers | English Strong and Weak Verbs - a Very Brief Overview | Floccinaucinihilipilification | Footnotes | Futtocks | The Gadfly | How to Solve 'The Times' Crossword | Irony | Jargon and its Siblings | The Language of the Cube Farm | The Longest German Word | The Longest Word | Lost Words | Mate | Neologisms | Nothing | Oddities of English | One, Two, Three - the Word Game | Origins of the Days of the Week | Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - The Longest Word | Pop - the Word | The Quote 'May You Live in Interesting Times' | Schadenfreude | Sesquipedalian Obscurantism | Specialised Words | Stuff | Thesaurus | They | Thursday | Trousers versus Pants | We | The Word 'Dude' | The Word 'Like' | The Word 'Well' | 'Yo' - A Word People Live By
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catchword (W3)
Im Englischen "schlagen" die Wörter nicht sondern "fangen". Das Wort "catchword" (= "Schlagwort") ist auf dem besten Weg zum "eye-catcher" = "Blickfang".
(E4)(L1) http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/
Welcome to "Luciferous Logolepsy", a collection of over 9,000 obscure english words. Though the definition of an "english" word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, derivative, archaic or abandoned words in what we loosely define as the "English Language", that a clear-cut definition seems impossible. For the purposes of this project though, words are included that may stretch any basic definitions. Particular attention has been paid to archaic words, as they tend to be more evocative - as if their very age lends additional meaning or overtones. Current personal favorites include "skirr", "epicaricacy" and "schizothemia".
The name of this project is also its description: "Luciferous" [adj. - "illuminating, literally and figuratively"] "Logolepsy" [n. - "an obsession with words"], in other words: 'an illuminating obsession with words'.
There are two varieties of collective noun listed here. When i receive a submission, i check all available sources for a reference. If i find one (in, for instance, a dictionary), i denote it here as a "submission". If i don't, i denote it a "suggestion". Feel free to submit a collective noun if you don't find it here. The goal is not (yet) to be comprehensive - merely entertaining.
This list is alphabetical by the collective noun. You'll note that there are multiple listings for a few types, for instance, "a hive of bees" and "a swarm of bees". These typically refer to terms that stem from different types of collection. In the example, "hive" is from the domicile of bees, and "swarm" is from a group of flying bees. This will be noted, and derivation given, where possible and confirmed. Please feel free to submit derivations (or even corrections!) for verification.
When the White Queen of Looking Glass fame bragged that she could read words of one letter, she beseeched Alice not to be discouraged, promising "You'll come to it in time." Indeed, the Queen's one letter word vocabulary was more comprehensive than one might first assume.
A word is any letter or group of letters which has meaning and is used as a unit of language.
So even though there are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, they stand for over seven hundred distinct units of meaning.
An abbreviation, on the other hand, is a letter used in place of a larger word. It is usually capitalized.
An abbreviation is not a word. Therefore, abbreviations in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words are clearly marked as such.
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verbivore (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.verbivore.com/
Richard Lederer's Verbovore
the web site woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores.
"Carnivores" eat meat; "herbivores" eat plants and vegetables; "verbivores" devour words.
Search Results 1-10 of 257 for: ""Words and Their Stories"" - Transcripts of radio broadcast
19 February 2011 - Words and Their Stories: Food Expressions, Part Two - That’s the way the cookie crumbles
12 February 2011 - Words and Their Stories: Food Expressions - Are you as cool as a cucumber?
05 February 2011 - Words and Their Stories: Ace in the Hole - Terms that come from card games
29 January 2011 - Words and Their Stories: Medical Expressions - Everyday expressions we use to describe someone's health
22 January 2011 - Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 4 - Ohio in the Midwest is called the Buckeye State. Rhode Island's nickname is Little Rhody
15 January 2011 - Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 3 - Third of a four-part series
08 January 2011 - Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 2 - Part two of a four-part series on nicknames for American states
04 January 2011 - Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 1 - A four-part series on nicknames for American states
24 December 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Insect Expressions - Don't be bugged by these terms
18 December 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Money, Part 3 - Working hard to bring home the bacon
10 December 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Money, Part 2 - Does money really make the world go round?
04 December 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Money, Part 1 - What does it take to have a rich life?
27 November 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Let's Do Business - Using words to make a profit in business
20 November 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Feel The Pinch - The Pains of Economic Trouble
12 November 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Proverbs, Part 2 - More expressions about a common truth or belief
06 November 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Proverbs, Part 1 - Famous sayings about love, war and other issues
30 October 2010 - Words and Their Stories: It Will Not Wash - Will your idea be a good one
23 October 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Grapevine - When information spreads by word of mouth
16 October 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Like a Rolling Stone - How an old proverb led to a popular rock and roll band, song and magazine
09 October 2010 - Words and Their Stories: In the Red - Some expressions used in business and investing
02 October 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Chickenfeed - Chickenfeed doesn't add up to much money
25 September 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Baloney - Expressions used to describe false, wrong or foolish things
18 September 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Numbers Part Two - Two heads are better than one. Part two of two stories about expressions that use numbers
08 September 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Number One - Part one of two stories about expressions that use numbers
04 September 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Apple Pie Order - When everything is just perfect
28 August 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Easy as Falling Off a Log - Terms for situations that are easy and not so easy
21 August 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Touch All Bases - Expressions from America's national pastime
14 August 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Down to Earth - Expressions about people who treat everyone fairly and with respect
07 August 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Belittle - Thomas Jefferson was the first to use this word
31 July 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Computer Terms - Have You Googled Anyone Lately
24 July 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Get Your Act Together - Some expressions that might be heard at business meetings
17 July 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Put Your Heart at Rest - More expressions getting to the heart of the matter
11 July 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Heart to Heart - The English language has many heartfelt expressions
11 July 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Heart to Heart - Honest and truthful things come straight from the heart
02 July 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Fireworks - Fireworks can mean a great show of noisy anger, or something exciting
02 July 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Have a Heart - More expressions using the word heart
26 June 2010 - Words and Their Stories: You Do Not Have to Be a Rocket Scientist - How did the expression begin? No one seems to know for sure
19 June 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Mouth Expressions - You took the words right out of my mouth
12 June 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Bird Words - Bird Words, Someone Who Eats Like a Bird Eats Very Little
04 June 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Golden Rules and Golden Oldies - Some expressions are just golden
29 May 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Dog Talk - A look at dog-related expressions
22 May 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Green Expressions - The word can mean many things, including jealousy
14 May 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Money Talks - Some business terms that will cost you
08 May 2010 - Words and Their Stories: More Clothing Expressions - My friends sometimes call me a wolf in sheep’s clothing
01 May 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Clothing Expressions - Let's see if we can name a few off the cuff
24 April 2010 - Words and Their Stories: English Expressions That Don't Pan Out - Expressions that take us back to the days of the gold rush in California
- 17 April 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Mayday - The French word is a call for help.
10 April 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Swan Song - It was my final effort and my finest work. It was my swan song
03 April 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Nicknames for Philadelphia and Boston - From the City of Brotherly Love to Beantown.
27 March 2010 - Words and Their Stories: From Couch Potato to Cabin Fever - American terms to describe active and inactive lifestyles.
13 March 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Nicknames for New Orleans and Las Vegas - From the Big Easy to Sin City.
06 March 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Military Expressions - Terms used to describe members of the US armed forces.
25 February 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Where Did 'OK' Come From? - A look at what may be the most commonly used word in the world.
20 February 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Fall Guy - Is the fall guy really the guilty one?
13 February 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Great Scott - There are many terms for expressing surprise, shock and anger.
06 February 2010 - Words and Their Stories: All About Names - Some names have special meanings in popular American expressions.
30 January 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Farm Expressions - English expressions related to agriculture.
23 January 2010 - Scott Joplin, 1867-1917: King of Ragtime Music - Joplin wrote 60 musical works during the early 1900s. Many of them are still popular today.
22 January 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Back, Shoulders and Chest - English idioms that are head and shoulders above the rest.
17 January 2010 - Words and Their Stories: A Chip on Your Shoulder - What it means when people are said to have a chip on their shoulderr.
08 January 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Nicknames for Chicago - A lot of hot and cold air in The Windy City
02 January 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Nicknames for Los Angeles - From the Big Apple to the Big Orange.
24 December 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Nicknames for New York City - Taking a bite out of the Big Apple.
19 December 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Santa Claus - The story of the man in the red suit who brings gifts to children at Christmas.
12 December 2009 - Words and Their Stories: The Cold, Hard Reality - English expressions that will leave you out in the cold.
05 December 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Hotheaded Hot Shot - Here is your hot line to heated English expressions.
28 November 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Bigwig - Terms for people who are powerful, at least in their own minds.
23 November 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Ace in the Hole - Terms that come from card games.
14 November 2009 - Words and Their Stories: I Feel Very Blue - Many everyday American expressions are based on colors.
07 November 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Wildcat - Americans use the names of animals in many ways.
31 October 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Nuts and Bolts - Mechanical English with a tight fit
23 October 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Losing It - On Words and Their Stories: It Can Be Hard When You Lose Control
15 October 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Money, Part 3 - Working hard to bring home the bacon.
10 October 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Money, Part 2 - Does money really make the world go round?
01 October 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Money, Part 1 - What does it take to have a rich life?
25 September 2009 - Words and Their Stories: When the Cat’s Away - These expressions are the cat’s pajamas.
18 September 2009 - Words and Their Stories: If a Student's Grades Hit Bottom, It Is Time to Hit the Books - Expressions involving the word hit.
11 September 2009 - Words and Their Stories: The Answer Is as Clear as the Nose on Your Face - Expressions involving the nose and the ears.
02 September 2009 - Words and Their Stories: All About Eyes - A look at terms related to eyes.
28 August 2009 - Words and Their Stories: More Expressions That Are Old and True - Proverbs are popular around the world.
21 August 2009 - Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 4 - Ohio in the midwest is called The Buckeye States. Rhode Island's nickname is Little Rhody.
15 August 2009 - Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 3 - Third of a four-part series.
08 August 2009 - Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 2 - A four-part series.
02 August 2009 - Words and Their Stories: State Nicknames, Part 1 - A four-part series.
26 July 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Two Heads Are Better Than One - A number of English expressions using numbers.
17 July 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Pulling a Fast One - A number of terms based on the number one.
12 July 2009 - Words And Their Stories: Hold Your Horses! - Some expressions straight from the horse’s mouth.
04 July 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Fireworks - What is all the noise about?
26 June 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Insect Expressions - Don't be bugged by these terms.
19 June 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Like a Rolling Stone - How an old proverb led to a popular rock and roll band, song and magazine.
11 June 2009 - Words and Their Stories: Get Your Act Together - Some expressions that might be heard at business meetings.
05 June 2009 - Easy As Falling Off a Log: Not Much Effort Involved! - It is easier to fall off a log than to stay on it.
29 May 2009 - Heart to Heart: Some Heartfelt Expressions - Do you wear your heart on your sleeve?
22 May 2009 - Deep-Six: Fishing for Sailors' Expressions - Terms from the sea.
16 May 2009 - Buff: Are You a Buff About Something? - Do you have a strong, special interest?
13 May 2009 - A Colorful Exhibit Tells About Amish Traditions - Also: A question from Russia about the music of Scott Joplin.
09 May 2009 - Water: Diving Into a Sea of Terms -
02 May 2009 - 'Hair' - More Than a Rock Musical - A story using expressions with the word hair.
25 April 2009 - In the Red: When a Business is Losing Money - Some expressions used in business and investing.
18 April 2009 - Computer Terms: Have You Googled Someone Lately? - Terms that come from the world of computers.
11 April 2009 - Baseball Terms: This Is a Whole New Ballgame - Expressions from America's national pastime.
05 April 2009 - Proverbs: Ideas About How to Live - These expressions are wise and true.
21 March 2009 - Take This Medicine: The Story of the Sign 'Rx' - How a special sign came to mean a doctor’s prescription.
- 14 March 2009 - Apple Pie Order: When Everything Is Just Perfect - Expressions about apples.
07 March 2009 - Back to Basics: Staying Down to Earth - Some expression about people who treat everyone fairly and with respect.
02 March 2009 - Proverbs: Some Listeners’ Favorite Sayings - More expressions about a common truth or belief.
21 February 2009 - Heard It on the Grapevine: What? Who Told You That? - When information spreads by word of mouth.
14 February 2009 - Have a Heart - Some English expressions that use the word heart.
08 February 2009 - To Buffalo: To Win by Trick or Threat - Expressions that describe winning by any means.
30 January 2009 - Belittle: Thomas Jefferson First Used This Word - The third president of the United States was not to be belittled.
23 January 2009 - Holding the Bag - American expressions that use the word bag.
17 January 2009 - Touching All Bases: Baseball Rules! - Some terms that come from the American pastime.
10 January 2009 - Circus: Some Agree It Is the 'Greatest Show on Earth' - How a simple word came to mean a place of fun and wonder.
03 January 2009 - Baloney: It's Just Not True - Expressions used to describe false, wrong or foolish things.
27 December 2008 - Hang: Don't Get Excited, Just Hang Loose - Expressions that will have you hanging on every word.
21 December 2008 - Proverbs: Famous Sayings About Love, War and Other Issues - Examples of proverbs that Americans use.
13 December 2008 - Hobson's Choice: When There Is Really No Choice at All - Making choices is necessary, but not always easy.
06 December 2008 - Dog Talk: Every Dog Has His Day - A look at dog-related expressions.
22 November 2008 - Mouth Expressions: The Experience Left a Bad Taste in My Mouth - English expressions using the word mouth.
14 November 2008 - You Do Not Have to Be a Rocket Scientist to Understand This - Rocket scientists can have problems just like everyone else.
08 November 2008 - Let's Do Business: I Made a Sweetheart Deal Last Month - Using words to make a profit in business.
02 November 2008 - Too Much Time Watching TV? You May Be a Couch Potato - Expressions about how people spend their time.
25 October 2008 - What Does the Average Joe Think? - Expressions that use common American names.
17 October 2008 - Who Put Lipstick on That Pig? - Expressions about pigs, hogs and sows.
15 October 2008 - American Election Expressions - Some examples of American expressions about voting and elections.
20 September 2008 - Let's Get Down to Brass Tacks - Getting to the bottom of a great English expression.
24 August 2008 - Fall Guy: He Took the Blame for Someone Else - Is the fall guy really the guilty one?
17 August 2008 - Doughboy: Military Expressions - Terms for members of the US armed forces.
10 August 2008 - Eureka: The Word Just Burst Out! - A look at an English expression that is losing its place in the language.
03 August 2008 - Green: More Than Just a Color - The word can mean many things, including jealousy.
27 July 2008 - Pan: The Critic Panned My Work - English expressions that don't quite pan out.
12 July 2008 - It Will Not Wash: Does It Work, or Not? - Will your idea be a good one?
06 July 2008 - Bigwig: Such an Important Person! - Terms for people who are powerful, at least in their own mind.
29 June 2008 - Fish Expressions: This All Sounds Very Fishy - English expressions that may sound fishy, but don't smell fishy.
22 June 2008 - Bird Words: Someone Who Eats Like a Bird Eats Very Little - Most of the people I work with are early birds.
14 June 2008 - Farm: It's Not Worth a Hill of Beans - English expressions related to agriculture.
07 June 2008 - More Numbers: Two Heads Are Better Than One - A number of English expressions using numbers.
01 June 2008 - Numbers: I, for One, Use These Expressions Often - A number of terms based on the number one.
25 May 2008 - Back, Shoulders and Chest: A Pat on the Back for a Job Well Done - English idioms that are head and shoulders above the rest.
18 May 2008 - Medical Terms: A Clean Bill of Health From the Doctor - Everyday expressions we use to describe someone's health.
11 May 2008 - Insect Expressions: I Don't Mean to Bug You - Putting a bug in your ear about English expressions.
03 May 2008 - A Chip on Your Shoulder: What Are You Going to Do About it? - What it means when someone is said to have a chip on their shoulder.
26 April 2008 - Touching All Bases: Baseball Rules! - Some terms that come from the sport.
20 April 2008 - Stock Market: The Business of Investing - Finance-related terms like bull market, bear market, belly up and windfall.
06 April 2008 - Colors: I'm Feeling Very Blue Today - Many American expressions are based on colors.
30 March 2008 - Hands: She is Making Money Hand-Over-Fist - English expressions that come from the hands.
23 March 2008 - Chickenfeed: It Doesn't Add Up to Much - Working for very little money...it's chickenfeed.
16 March 2008 - Cold: She Felt the Cold Hard Reality of Life - English expressions that will leave you out in the cold.
08 March 2008 - Nuts and Bolts: The Mechanics of Any Organization - Mechanical English with a tight fit.
01 March 2008 - Hot: He Was a Hotheaded Hot Shot! - Here is your hot line to heated English expressions.
23 February 2008 - Blizzard: Don't Let This Expression Snow You - A violent and heavy blizzard is not the only thing that can snow you under.
16 February 2008 - Chickenfeed: It Doesn't Add Up to Much - Working for very little money....it's chickenfeed
09 February 2008 - Money Talks: Everything Else Walks - Some business terms that will cost you.
02 February 2008 - Hit: If a Student's Grades Hit Bottom, It Is Time to Hit the Books - Colorful expressions that are a huge hit.
- 26 January 2008 - Nicknames: America's 50 States (Fourth of Four Parts) - Ohio in the midwest is called The Buckeye States. Rhode Island's nickname is Little Rhody.
19 January 2008 - Nicknames: America's 50 States (Third of Four Parts) - The mid-Atlantic state of Maryland is called the Free State. The western desert state of Nevada is called the Silver State.
12 January 2008 - Nicknames: America's 50 States (Second of Four Parts) - Kentucky is the Bluegrass State and Louisiana is the Bayou State.
06 January 2008 - Nicknames: America's 50 States (First of Four Parts) - Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie. Alaska is called the Last Frontier.
02 January 2008 - Remembering Oscar Peterson, One of Jazz's Greatest Musicians - Also: Listeners in Bosnia and Nigeria ask about state nicknames. And a report on efforts to restore Ellis Island, which was known as the ''Gateway to America.''
29 December 2007 - Get Your Act Together: Organization Is the Name of the Game - Some expressions that might be heard at business meetings.
15 December 2007 - Money, Money, Money: Dinner Is on the House - Working hard to bring home the bacon.
08 December 2007 - More Money: Money Can Make People Do Strange Things - Does money really make the world go round?
01 December 2007 - Money: He Hit the Jackpot - What does it take to have a rich life?
24 November 2007 - Computer Terms: Ever Google Someone? - Hackers, bloggers and spam -- what does it all mean?
17 November 2007 - Water: She Is In Hot Water - Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself.
10 November 2007 - Losing It: It's Hard When You Lose Control - Mary was angry with herself. She said, "Am I losing it?"
10 November 2007 - Losing It: It Can Be Hard When You Lose Control - Mary was angry with herself. She said, "Am I losing it?"
03 November 2007 - Monkey: No Monkey Business Here - Expressions about tricky people or playful acts.
27 October 2007 - Kick: This Is an Idea Worth Kicking Around - Here are some English expressions with kick.
20 October 2007 - Rocket Scientist: You Do Not Have to Be Extremely Intelligent to Understand This - Rocket scientists can have problems just like everyone else.
13 October 2007 - Wildcat: Is It a Fast Car or False Money? - Americans use the names of animals in many ways.
06 October 2007 - Great Scott: What a Surprise! - An exclamation that has lasted, surprisingly.
29 September 2007 - Swan Song: It Was My Final Effort and My Finest Work - English writers Chaucer and Shakespeare told the story of the swan's last song.
22 September 2007 - Belittle: Thomas Jefferson First Used This Word - The third president of the United States was not to be belittled.
16 September 2007 - Hang: Don't Get Excited, Just Hang Loose - Expressions that will have you hanging on every word.
09 September 2007 - Couch Potato: Life as a Full-Time Television Watcher - Terms for the active and inactive.
02 September 2007 - Top Brass: What American Workers Call Their Employers - It is all work and no play around the boss.
26 August 2007 - Baseball Terms: This Is a Whole New Ballgame - Rounding the bases in a game of ball.
19 August 2007 - Hobson's Choice: When There Is Really No Choice at All - Making choices is necessary, but not always easy.
12 August 2007 - Heart to Heart: Let's Get to the Heart of the Matter - Take heart, the English language has many heartfelt expressions.
04 August 2007 - All About Names: He Was a True Jack of All Trades - Some names have special meanings in popular American expressions.
29 July 2007 - Let's Do Business: I Made a Sweetheart Deal Last Month - Using words to make a profit in business.
22 July 2007 - Mouth Expressions: The Experience Left a Bad Taste in My Mouth - English expressions using the word mouth.
15 July 2007 - Nose: The Answer Is as Clear as the Nose on Your Face - Some people are said to be hard-nosed.
08 July 2007 - All About Eyes: Once He Caught My Eye, It Was Love Everlasting - A look at terms related to eyes.
01 July 2007 - Fireworks: What Is All the Noise About? - Fireworks can by noisy, even if there is no explosion.
24 June 2007 - More Words About Clothing: I Am Not Talking Through My Hat - English expressions that are all dressed up with no place to go.
16 June 2007 - Words About Clothing: Let's See if I Can Name a Few Off the Cuff - Clothing idioms that dress up the English language.
09 June 2007 - Bird Words: Someone Who Eats Like a Bird Eats Very Little - People who eat like birds eat very little.
02 June 2007 - Back, Shoulders and Chest: A Pat on the Back for a Job Well Done - English idioms that are head and shoulders above the rest.
26 May 2007 - Dog Talk: Life in a Dog-Eat-Dog World - On WORDS AND THEIR STORIES: Dog-related expressions.
19 May 2007 - More Numbers: Two Heads Are Better Than One - Two Heads Are Better Than One
19 May 2007 - More Numbers: Two Heads Are Better Than One - A number of English expressions using numbers.
12 May 2007 - Numbers: I, for One, Use These Expressions Often - A number of terms based on the number one.
12 May 2007 - Numbers: I, for One, Use These Expressions Often - 2007-07-10-voa4
05 May 2007 - Medical Terms: A Clean Bill of Health From the Doctor - Medical Terms: A Clean Bill of Health From the Doctor
05 May 2007 - Medical Terms: A Clean Bill of Health From the Doctor - Everyday expressions we use to describe someone's health.
29 April 2007 - Bigwig: Such an Important Person - Terms for people who are powerful, at least in their own mind.
22 April 2007 - Ace in the Hole: Put on Your Poker Face - Terms that come from card games.
15 April 2007 - A Chip on Your Shoulder: What Are You Going to Do About It? - What it means when people are said to have a chip on their shoulder.
08 April 2007 - On a Short Leash: He Had Firm Control Over His Workers - A term for the closely supervised.
01 April 2007 - Colors: I'm Feeling Very Blue Today - Many everyday American expressions are based on colors.
19 March 2007 - Fall Guy: He Took the Blame for Someone Else - Is the Fall Guy Really the Guilty One?
18 March 2007 - Buff: Are You a Buff About Something? - Do you have a strong, special interest?
11 March 2007 - Face: Time to Face the Music - Expressions as plain as the nose on your face.
04 March 2007 - Heard It on the Grapevine: What? Who Told You That? - When information spreads by word of mouth.
24 February 2007 - Baloney: It's Just Not True - Expressions used to describe false, wrong or foolish things.
17 February 2007 - Dutch: English Expressions Unrelated to Dutch People - Common expressions that have nothing to do with the Dutch people.
11 February 2007 - Doughboy: Military Expressions - Terms for members of the US armed forces.
03 February 2007 - Feel The Pinch: The Pains of Economic Trouble - Talking about financial problems.
28 January 2007 - In the Red: Better to Be in the Black - Some business terms you can profit from.
21 January 2007 - Money Talks: Everything Else Walks - Making your money talk for you.
14 January 2007 - Chickenfeed: It Doesn't Add Up to Much - Working for very little money...it's chickenfeed.
06 January 2007 - Stock Market: The Business of Investing - Investing in stocks is big business...and big money.
23 December 2006 - Santa Claus: Do You Believe? - Santa Claus is coming to town.
17 December 2006 - Green: More Than Just a Color - The word can mean many things, including jealousy.
10 December 2006 - Easy As Falling Off a Log: Not Much Effort Involved! - It is easier to fall off a log than to stay on it.
03 December 2006 - To Touch All Bases: Baseball Rules! - It is important to touch all four bases in the game of baseball.
26 November 2006 - Deep Six: It Is Well Hidden - Sailors who never want to see something again will give it the deep-six.
19 November 2006 - Circus: Some Agree It Is the 'Greatest Show on Earth' - On WORDS AND THEIR STORIES: We take a look at life under the big top.
12 November 2006 - Battle-Axe: Use at Your Own Risk - This term for a fierce woman is widely considered sexist, but some people say it may not be so.
05 November 2006 - Water: She Is In Hot Water - Expressions about water are almost as common as water itself.
29 October 2006 - It Will Not Wash: Does It Work, or Not? - Will your idea be a good one?
22 October 2006 - Losing It: It's Hard When You Lose Control - Mary was angry at herself. She asked, "Am I losing it?"
18 October 2006 - Get Your Act Together: Organization Is the Name of the Game - Some expressions that might be heard at business meetings.
08 October 2006 - Hit: If a Student's Grades Hit Bottom, It Is Time to Hit the Books - Popular English expressions spoken in the United States.
24 September 2006 - Money, Money, Money: Dinner Is on the House
24 September 2006 - More Money: Money Can Make People Do Strange Things
17 September 2006 - Money: He Hit the Jackpot
10 September 2006 - Rocket Scientist: You Do Not Have to Be Extremely Intelligent to Understand This - How the English expression "rocket scientist" is used
03 September 2006 - Computer Terms: Good Hackers, Bad Hackers and Busy Bloggers
27 August 2006 - Heart to Heart: Let's Get to the Heart of Matter
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28 May 2006 - Dog Talk: Most Dogs in the U.S. Seem to Have an Easy Life
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Words and Their Stories - An explanation of words and terms in American English.
Ein "Wort", engl. "Word" ist eine bedeutungstragende Spracheinheit, bestehend aus einem oder mehreren Tönen oder ihrer schriftlichen Wiedergabe.
Das engl. "Word" und natürlich auch das dt. "Wort" gehen auf ein postuliertes ide. "*wer-", "*were-", "*wre-" = "sprechen" und weiter auf ide. "*w-dho-" = "word" zurück. Über germ. "*wurdam" wurde es zu "word" und "Wort".
Über das ide. "*wer-dho-" ist "word" verwandt mit "verb", "verve", "adverb", "proverb", und natürlich dem zugrunde liegenden lat. "verbum" = "word".
Aus dem verwandten ide. "*wer-yo-" = "Ironie" entstand griech. "eirein" = "sagen", "sprechen".
Aus der Variante ide. "*wre-tor-" entstandt der griech. "rhetor" und damit dt., engl. "Rhetor", "öffentlicher Sprecher".
Aus der Variante ide. "*wre-m" entstandt der griech. "rhema" = "word", "Rede", "Aussage". Und die "Rede" dürfte demnach ja auch auf diese indoeuropäische Wurzel zurück gehen.
Unter anderem ist "Word" ist auch die Bezeichnung für ein Schreibprogramm.
Und in der Computerei bezeichnet "word" auch die kleinste adressierbare Einheit.
word: A fundamental unit of storage in a computer. The size of a word in a particular computer architecture is one of its chief distinguishing characteristics.
The size of a word is usually the same as the width of the computer's {data bus} so it is possible to read or write a word in a single operation.
"Word" is an English (and German) place name for the man who lived near the thicket. Or near a winding brook. Or the man who inhabited an open place in a village. Or the man who had an ancestor named "Werdo", which was a pet form of the name "Werdmann" or "Werdheri". In the case of the latter, it's a Patronymic name.
Zu diesem engl. "Word" passt der dt. "Wördemann" als Bezeichnung für einen Bewohner eines mnd. "wort" = "erhöhtes und eingehegtes Grundstück" und das altengl. "wirth" = "befestigte Siedlung". Diese mnd. "wort" steckt vermutlich auch in Ortsnamen wie "Wörde" in Nordrhein-Westfalen und "Wöhrden" in Schleswig-Holstein und Niedersachsen (allerdings ohne Gewähr, da ich keinen Hinweis dazu gefunden habe).
Der "Wördeman" gehört also zur Familie der "Werder-Wörter".
"Word": Ein Satz von Bits (normalerweise 16 oder 32), der eine einzelne Speicherposition belegt und der vom Computer als eine Informationseinheit behandelt wird.
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Hier wird ein als "Grußwort" benutztes "word" vorgestellt, das anscheinend aus der Musikszene bzw. neueren Jugendkultur erwachsen ist. Es wird anscheind im Sinne von "Sag mir mal ein Wort" = "Was gibts Neues?" benutzt.
word n. A question asked to another person in greeting them. This is to ask someone what the word is on how they are and what they are doing. As a person walks past they may be greeted with, "Word!" This derives from "word" as information or news. "Word up" is a common phrase used with this definition to ask what is happening with someone else. Often used in alternative and rap music.
word:
(1) A character string considered as a unit for a given purpose.
(2) A fundamental unit of storage that refers to the amount of data that can be processed at a time. Word size is a characteristic of the computer architecture. See also doubleword, halfword.
word boundary: Any storage position at which data must be aligned for certain processing operations. See also doubleword boundary, fullword boundary, halfword boundary.
word formation element: A word fragment. For example, the sentence "It's a wonderful world" is made up of the following word fragments, it + 's + a + wonderful + world.
word spotting: In speech recognition, the ability to recognize a single word in a stream of words.
word stemming: A process of linguistic normalization in which the variant forms of a word are reduced to a common form. For example, words like connections, connective, and connected are reduced to connect.
word wrap: A function of a program that automatically moves the last word on a displayed line of text down to the next line if the word runs beyond the right margin setting.
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A "word" is a unit which is a constituent at the phrase level and above. It is sometimes identifiable according to such criteria as
being the minimal possible unit in a reply, having features such as:
a regular stress pattern, and
phonological changes conditioned by or blocked at word boundaries
being the largest unit resistant to insertion of new constituents within its boundaries, or
being the smallest constituent that can be moved within a sentence without making the sentence ungrammatical.
A word is sometimes placed, in a hierarchy of grammatical constituents, above the morpheme level and below the phrase level.
In computer architecture, a word is a unit of data of a defined bit length that can be addressed and moved between storage and the computer processor. Usually, the defined bit length of a word is equivalent to the width of the computer's data bus so that a word can be moved in a single operation from storage to a processor register.
For any computer architecture with an eight-bit byte, the word will be some multiple of eight bits. In IBM's evolutionary System/360 architecture, a word is 32 bits, or four continguous eight-bit bytes. In Intel's PC processor architecture, a word is 16 bits, or two contiguous eight-bit bytes.
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Definition:
A word is a grammatical unit that enjoys a moderate degree of autonomy. I.e. while its parts tend to occupy fixed (morphological) positions, to be welded phonologically, to contract well-defined paradigmatic relations, all this is true to a lesser extent for the word itself and to an even lesser extent for the syntagm.
The cognitive counterpart of a word in general is a mental representation.
(1) In word processing, any group of characters separated by spaces or punctuation on both sides. Whether it is a real word or not is unimportant to the word processor.
(2) In programming, the natural data size of a computer. The size of a word varies from one computer to another, depending on the CPU. For computers with a 16-bit CPU, a word is 16 bits (2 bytes). On large mainframes, a word can be as long as 64 bits (8 bytes).
Some computers and programming languages distinguish between shortwords and longwords. A shortword is usually 2 bytes long, while a longword is 4 bytes.
Woxikon, das Online Lexikon und Wörterbuch. Übersetzung von Wörtern und Wortgruppen.
"Woxikon" setzt sich zusammen aus "Wort", "Wörter" und "Lexikon" (kurz "Woxi"). "Woxikon" begann als reines Wörterbuch. Mittlerweile ist aus dem Wörterbuch ein umfangreiches Lexikon entstanden. Mit Übersetzungen, Synonymen, Reimen, Abkürzungen und vielem mehr.
Wörterbücher:
Deutsch Wörterbuch
Englisch Wörterbuch
Französisch Wörterbuch
Spanisch Wörterbuch
Italienisch Wörterbuch
Niederländisch Wörterbuch
Portugiesisch Wörterbuch
Schwedisch Wörterbuch
Russich Wörterbuch
Wörterbuch in anderen Sprachen:
Wörterbuch in Deutsch
Dictionary in English
Dictionnaire en Français
Diccionario en Español
Dizionario in Italiano
Woordenboek in Nederlands
Ordbok på Svenska
Neben dem Wörterbuch bietet Woxikon ein umfangreiches Lexikon an.
Synonyme: Woxikon bietet eines der größten Synonym- und Antonym-Wörterbücher deutscher Wörter.
Reim Hilfe: Deutsche und Englische Wörter zu finden, die sich reimen ist oft nicht leicht. Woxikon Reime hilft Ihnen dabei und findet das passende Wort.
Rechner: Woxikon bietet verschiedene Online-Rechner, die Ihnen den Alltag erleichtern werden. - Taschenrechner, Währungsrechner, Einheitenrechner.
Grammatik: Mit dieser Grammatik-Übersicht möchten wir Ihnen helfen, die deutsche Grammatik besser zu verstehen und einen genauen Überblick zu bekommen. Mit Beispielen erklärt und wichtigen Links zu Übungsaufgaben.
Abkürzungen: Oft genutzt, selten gewusst. Abkürzungen bestimmen unseren Alltag. Woxikon hat ein Abkürzungs-Lexikon/-Wörterbuch mit den wichtigsten Begriffen erstellt.
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How Words enter the language
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Is there a formal process?
A student recently e-mailed me to enquire how a word officially becomes part of the English language. He was certain that there must be some formal process involved. Surely, he said, there must be a body such as a group of lexicographers that decides when a word is really a word, as otherwise English would be anarchic.
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Michael Quinion writes about international English from a British viewpoint
The English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution
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Michael Qunion's World Wide Words - Michael Quinion has an extensive and most wonderful site. It should come as no surprise that he's affiliated with the "Oxford English Dictionary", among other notable institutions.
Michael Quinion writes about International English from a British viewpoint. Hundreds of pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English, with features on new words and words in the news.
This site features "Articles on Aspects of English," "Turns of Phrase," "The Word Hoard," and "Usage Notes".
A collection of short essays by Michael Quinion on a wide variety of topics. Sections on new words, newsworthy words, old obscure words, and usage notes. Consistently interesting and reliable.
MICHAEL QUINION
After Cambridge University, where he studied physical sciences, he joined BBC radio as a studio manager. “The job was a fascinating blend of the techie and the creative artist,” he says. “Though much of the time you were dogsbody, equipment operator and referee rolled into one”. After that, he helped to start local radio in Britain, at Brighton, where he produced programmes about the countryside, consumer affairs, books, religion, student life and the local and general elections. He then moved to Plymouth, where he helped to start a breakfast-time two-hour sequence of news and local features.
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One book, two titles.: It is called "Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds" in the USA and "Port Out, Starboard Home" ("POSH") everywhere else.
The cat’s pajamas, the bee’s knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for word lovers skewers commonly accepted word-origin myths and etymological folk tales. Can it really be true that golf stands for “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden”? Did the term computer "bug" really derive from an errant moth shorting out an early computer? Did the "kangaroo" really get its name through a misunderstanding between explorers and natives? The real story of the origin and evolution of a word or phrase is often much stranger than the commonly accepted one. The expressions that Michael Quinion reviews range throughout the English-speaking world, from cater-cornered to dinkum and from wet one’s whistle to happy as a clam. From the bawdy to the sublime, explanations and delightful asides truly prove that the proof is in the pudding. If you ever wondered about why we utter such oddities as raining cats and dogs, I could care less or twenty-three skidoo, this one’s for you. It’s a treasure trove of fiction and fact for anyone interested in language.
Am 26.08.2005 waren folgende Inhalte in den einzelnen Sektionen zu finden:
Pieces originate in questions asked by subscribers to the World Wide Words newsletter and are as eclectic as you could wish.
A to F
Abbreviation lb for pound; w Abracadabra; w Adam’s off ox; w Aga saga; w Aksed versus asked; All mouth and trousers; All my eye and Betty Martin; All wool and a yard wide; April; Arfanarf; Argy-bargy; Arms akimbo; Artefact versus artifact; Ascian; Aunt Sally; Bail out; Barbecue; Barking mad; Bated breath; Bear up; Beat the band; Bee’s knees; Beg the question; Beggar on horseback; Bells and whistles; Besmitten; Best bib and tucker; Big cheese; Big girl’s blouse; Big pond; Bill; Bint; Birds and the bees; Bistro; Black Maria; Blackbirding; Blighty; Blivet and nitnoid; Blockbuster; Bloke; Blot one’s copy book; Blow the gaff; Blue; Blue blood; Blue-plate special; Bob’s your uncle; Bobby; Bog-standard; Bohemian; Boilerplate; Bonce; Boodle bag; Books without the letter ‘e’; Boot; Bootleg; Bossy; Boycott; Brand spanking new; Brass monkey weather; Brass ring; Brassed off; Brassiere; Break a leg; Break one’s duck; Briar pipe; Bridie; Brouhaha; Brown study; Brownie points; Buck up; Buckley’s chance; Bug; Bulls and bears; Bumbershoot; Bumf; Bun fight; Bunny rabbit; Butter no parsnips; Butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth; By and large; By Jove; By the great horn spoon; Cack-handed; Camp; Carpet; Carry the can; Case in point; Cast aspersions; Cat’s mother, the; Catbird seat; Centrifical force; Chaise longue; Chance your arm; Charley horse; Cheap at half the price; Chew the scenery; Chillaxing; Chip off the old block; Chip on one’s shoulder; Chook; Chow; Chunder; Church key; Claptrap; Cobblers; Cock a snook; Cock-up; Cockles of your heart; Cold shoulder; Colon; Colonel; Column; Come a cropper; Come hell or high water; Compleat v complete; Cool; Cooties; Cop; Cop-out; Coppice; Country names in -stan; Countryside; Crackpot; Crap; Cream; Cream crackered; Crimony; Crocodile tears; Crush; Cry all the way to the bank; Curate’s egg; Curmudgeon; Cut the mustard; Cut your stick; Dab hand; Darby and Joan; Dauncy; Davy Jones’ locker; Dead as a doornail; Dead cat bounce; Deadhead; Dealybob; Dear John letter; Death toll; Dekko; Derby; Devil to pay, the; Dibs; Dichotomy; Dick’s hatband; Diddler; Digs; Dog in the manger; Dog-and-pony show; Dogsbody; Done and done; Donkey’s years; Doolally tap; Doozy; Dopp kit; Double-dog dare you; Doughboy; Down to the wire; Drag; Dreaded lurgi; Dressed to the nines; Drum and Gaff; Dry run; Duck soup; Ducks and drakes; Duct tape NEW ; Duke’s mixture; Eavesdropper; Egg on one’s face; Eggplant; Egregious; Elephant and Castle; Embuggerance; Enquire versus inquire; Enthuse; Envision versus envisage; Esprit de l’escalier; Exception that proves the rule; Face the music; Fainites; Fair cop; Fair dinkum; Fair to middling; Feckless; Fiddler’s Green; Fiddlesticks; Fight like Kilkenny cats; Fine fettle;
; Flummox; Fog; Foot the bill; For appearance’s sake; For Pete’s sake; Forte; Forthwith; Frequency of initial letters; Frick and Frack; Fro; From whence; Fuddy-duddy; Funk; Funner and funnest; Fuzz
G to O
Gadget; Gander; Gandy dancer; Get one’s goat; Gig; Gingerly; Git; Give it some welly; Give no quarter; Go hence without day; Goat and Compasses; Gobsmacked; Going south; Going to hell in a handbasket; Golf; Goody two shoes; Gorp; Gotham; Grapefruit; Grass roots; Grass widow; Gravy train; Great Scott; Green room; Green-ink letter; Groovy; Groundswell; Grub; Gubernatorial; Guff; Guinea pig; Gussied up; Gyp; Gyp; Hackneyed; Hairbrained; Hammer and tongs; Handicapped; Hang a Louie; Hang fire; Happy as a clam; Happy as a sandboy; Happy as Larry; Hard graft; Harsh one’s mellow; Hat trick; Have one’s guts for garters; Have your cake and eat it; Head over heels; Heat; Heavens to Betsy; Heebie-jeebies; Heighth; Hem and haw; Herb; High jinks; High Street; Hill of beans; Hillbillies; Hippie; His nibs; Historical forms of the possessive; Hobo; Hobson’s choice; Holy smoke; Honeymoon; Hoo-ha; Hooplehead; Hop the twig; Hopefully; Horns of a dilemma; Horsefeathers; Hot dog; How’s your father; Huckleberry; Hue and cry; Hullaballoo; Hunker down; Hunky-dory; Hush puppy; I could care less; I feel good; I should cocoa; Immense chemical names; In cold blood; In like Flynn; In the field; Indian summer; Irish twins; Irregardless; It’s a dog’s life; It’s Greek to me; Ivory tower; Jacob’s join; Jalopy; Jamoke; Jazz; Jesus H Christ; Jimmy a lock; Jinx; Joe; John; John Doe; Johnny-on-the-spot; Jolly hockey-sticks; Joystick; Juju & jujube; Jukebox; Jumbo; Jump the shark; Jumper; Jumping Jehoshaphat; Jury rigged; Kangaroo court; Katy bar the door; Keep mum; Keep your eyes peeled; Kelsey’s nuts; Ketchup versus catsup; Kick the bucket; Kilometre; Kilroy was here; Kilter; King Charles’s Head; Kip; Kiss the gunner’s daughter; Kitty; Kitty-corner; Kludge; Know your onions; Lead-pipe cinch; Lead-swinger; Left holding the bag; Let the cat out of the bag; Life of riley; Lightning in a bottle; Like a banshee; Like the dickens; Likeness; Living daylights, the; Lizzie Tish (or Tizzy Lish); Loblolly boy; Lock, stock and barrel; Long arm of the law; Long johns; Loo; Lope; Lynch; Mad as a hatter; Mad as hops; Make a hames of something; Make ends meet; Make no bones about it; Malarky; Mare’s nest; Mash note; Mayfair; McGuffin; Merismus; Mess; Milquetoast; Mind your beeswax; Missing opposites; Moggie; Mollycoddling; Mollydooker; Monkey’s uncle; Monkey’s wedding; Monstering; Mooch; Mooncalf; Moot point; More than one way to skin a cat; Mortarboard; Moxie; Muchness; Mufti; Mullered; Mummer; Mumpsimus; My giddy aunt; Nauseous versus nauseated; Nave; Navvy; Nebbishy; Needs must when the devil drives; New York minute; Niche; Nick of time; Niggardly; Nineteen to the dozen; Nit-picking; Nitty-gritty; No soap; Nonce; Nosy parker; Not by a long chalk; Not this little black duck!; Nothing like leather; Ocker; Old Dart; Ollie ollie oxen free; On a wing and a prayer; On all fours; On one’s tod; On pins and needles; On tenterhooks; On the Adrian; On the fritz; On the QT; On the wagon; On your uppers; One another; One fell swoop; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; Oneirodynia; Orange; Organogram; Orientated versus oriented; Out of sorts; Out of whack; Over a barrel; Over the moon; Over the yardarm; Oxford comma
P to Z
Pain versus pine; Pair of pants; Palooka; Panhandle; Patient; Peanut gallery; Pear-shaped; Peruse; Peter out; Philogynist; Pie in the sky; Piffy on a rock bun; Pig in a poke; Pigs might fly; Pinkie; Piping hot; Pitch; Play it by ear; Pleased as Punch; Plonk; Plurals in ‘-en’; Po-faced; Pogey; Point-blank; Policy wonk; Pollyanna; Pom; Pop goes the weasel; Pop one’s clogs; Posh; Potboiler; Prat; Predominately versus predominantly; Pretty; Proof of the pudding; Pull (out) the plug; Pulling one’s leg; Punctuation and quotation marks; Purl; Push the envelope; Put on (the) dog; Q followed by U; Quack; Queen of Spain’s Legs; Queer somebody’s pitch; Quiz; Raining cats and dogs; Ramping cat; Range; Read the riot act; Real McCoy, the; Retort; Rhykenology; Riff-raff; Right as rain; Ringer / Dead ringer; Road metal; Rod; Roger; Rogue; Round-robin; Rule of thumb; Rush the growler; Salad days; Sam Hill; San fairy ann; Sand; Sandy-grey russet; Saved by the bell; Say (or cry) uncle; Scot free; Scotch; Screaming ab-dabs; Scuttlebutt; Sea change; See a man about a dog; Segue; Send to Coventry; Settle a score; Sha’n’t versus shan’t; Shaggy dog story; Shake a stick at; Shank’s mare; Shilling ordinary; Shindig; Shit; Shoo-in; Short shrift; Shufti; Sick as a dog; Silver bullet; Singular or plural verb with ‘none’; Singular they; Skell; Skive; Skivvies; Skosh; Skunk works; Sky-blue pink; Slang; Sleep tight; Sleeping one’s head into train oil; Sling one’s hook; Smart Alec; Smarty pants; Snit; Snob; So dull you could ride to China on them; Sock it to them; Soft sawder; Sow one’s wild oats; Spatchcock; Spelling bee; Spendthrift; Spick and span; Spiff; Spitting feathers; Spitting image; Spiv; Spoil; Sport one’s oak; Square; Squaw; Stars and garters; Start from scratch; State of the art; Stationary versus stationery; Steal one’s thunder; Stemwinder; Step-; Stick-in-the-mud; Sticky wicket; Stone the crows; Stonking; Stool pigeon; Suffonsified; Sugar and sure; Sunday throat; Swag; Swain; Swamper; Swashbuckling; Swearing on one’s testicles; Sycophant; Synecdoche and metonymy; Take the mickey; Take the piss; Talk turkey; Tall tale; Tapping the Admiral; Tarred with the same brush; Tchotchke; Teaching one’s grandmother to suck eggs; Teetotal; Teller; Tempest in a teapot; Terms using Dutch; The ending -ati; The ending -wards;
The whole megillah; Theodolite; Three sheets in the wind; Through the grapevine; Throw in the towel; Tickety-boo; Tide one over; Time out of mind; Tinhorn; Tinker’s damn; Tip; To boot; To buy the farm; To wit; Toad-eater; Toe the line; Toe-rag; Ton; Top notch; Touch wood/knock on wood; Tracklements; Trip the light fantastic; True facts; Tub thumping; Turn up for the book; Twee; Un- versus In-; Understand; Until, till and ‘til; Up in Annie’s room; Up to snuff; Upsidaisy; Vamp; Vet; Waffling; Waiting for the other shoe to drop; Watershed; West Brit; Wet one’s whistle; Which came first: he or she?; While versus whilst; While versus wile; Whim-wham for a goose’s bridle; Whip round; Whistle-stop tour; Whole ball of wax; Whole cloth; Whole kit and kaboodle; Whopper-jawed; Whose; Widget; Wigs on the green; Windy City; Within a gnat’s ...; Woebegone; Won’t; Words for the numbers following ten; Work cut out; Worth the candle; Wrong side of the bed; Ye gods and little fishes!; Year’s mind; Yehudi did it; Yonks; Zilch
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Misc @; 2C-B; 3D fatigue; 86.
A A test question gets grammarians arguing; A Word in Your Shell-Like; Abacot; Abbreviation lb for pound; Abditory; Abigail; Abracadabra; Absquatulate; Acersecomic; Acoustic shock; Acronychal; Acronyms; Acrophony; Across the board; Activitystat; Adam's off ox; Addiction; Adipocere; ADS Words of the Year 2003; Adumbrate; Adust; Aerobot; Aerotropolis; Affluence test; AfPak; Aga saga; Agelastic; Agitory; Agrestic; Agroterrorism; Ahoy!; Aksed versus asked; Albertopolis; Alcolock; Alcopop; Alegar; Alexipharmic; All mouth and trousers; All my eye and Betty Martin; All wool and a yard wide; Allohistory; All-singing, all-dancing; Almanac; Altermodernism; Aluminium versus aluminum; Ambient; Ambient advertising; America In So Many Words; American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition; Amn't; Amperkine; Ampersand; An Exceedance of Impactful Ignorals; Anadiplosis; Analemmatic; Anamorphosis; Anatine; Andrew; Android; Andropause; Anfractuosity; Angiogenesis inhibitor; Anorakish; Ansible; Anthropodermic; Antimacassar; Apocope; Apology; Apoptosis; Aposematic; Aposiopesis; Apostrophes; Apostrophes; Apozem; Apple of one's eye; Approximeeting; Apricate; April; Archaeogenetics; Archaeon; Arenaceous; Areologist; Arfanarf; Argey-bargey; Aristology; Arithmetic symbols; Arms akimbo; Arsenal; Artefact versus artifact; Artilect; As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; Ascian; Ash; Asian Brown Cloud; Astrobleme; Astrobolism; Asylo; Asymmetrical warfare; At sign, @; Ataraxy; -ati; Atrabilious; Attercop; Aubergine; Aunt Sally; Austringer; Autohagiography; Auxetic.
B Back to square one; Backronym; Bad cess; Bafflegab; Bail out; Balderdash; Balderdash & Piffle; Bald-faced, boldfaced or barefaced?; Balductum; Balls-up; Ban; Banana; Bangalored; Bankrupt; Bant; Banter; Baragouin; Barbarian; Barbecue; Barking mad; Barmecide; Barrelhouse Words; Bated breath; Bathykolpian; Beanpole family; Bear up; Beat the band; Bedbug; Bedizened; Beeregar; Bee's knees; Beg the question; Begat; Beggar on horseback; Beggar-my-neighbour; Beghilos; Bejuggle; Believe you me; Bells and whistles; Bellwether; Benidorm leave; Besmitten; Bespoke; Best bib and tucker; Between versus among; Beyond the pale; Bezoar; Big Apple; Big Bang II; Big cheese; Big girl's blouse; Big pond; Big shot; Bill, the; Billy-o; Bint; Bioart; Bioinformatics; Bioinvasion; Biomimetics; Biomusicology; Biophilia; Biopiracy; Biopunk; Biosimilar; Biosurgery; Birds and the bees; Birtism; Bistro; Bitter end; Black ball; Black Hole; Black Maria; Black swan; Blackbirding; Blackguard; Blackmail; Black-water rafting; Blairism; Blatherskite; Blends; Blighty; Blivet and nitnoid; Blobitecture; Blockbuster; Blogger; Bloke; Blood and thunder; Bloody; Blooming English; Blot one’s copy book; Bloviate; Blow me!; Blow the gaff; Blower; Blue; Blue blood; Blue moon; Blue revolution; Bluejacking; Blue-plate special; Bluestocking; Bluetooth; Blu-Ray; Blurb; Bobby; Bob's your uncle; Bodacious; Bodger; Boffin; Bog-standard; Bogus; Bohemian; Boilerplate; Bold as brass; Bombastic; Bombilation; Bonce; Bonzer; Boodle bag; Bookcrossing; Books without the letter e; Boondoggle; Boot; Boot camp; Bootleg; Bootless; Borborygmus; Boscage; Boss; Bossnapping; Bossy; Botnet; Bottle; Boughten; Boustrophedonic; Bowdlerise; Bowser; Boxing Day; Boycott; Bozo; Braggadocious; Brain fingerprinting; Brainstorming; Brand; Brand spanking new; Brass monkey weather; Brass ring; Brass tacks; Brassed off; Brassiere; Brave New Words; Bread-and-butter letter; Break a leg; Break one's duck; Break-out space; Briar pipe; Bribery; Bridewell; Bridie; Bright; Brimborion; Bringing Home the Bacon; Brobdingnagian; Bromide; Bromopnea; Brouhaha; Brown study; Brownie points; Brummagem; Bruxer; Buck up; Buckley’s chance; Budget; Buff; Bug; Bull in a china shop; Bulldozer; Bulls and bears; Bully pulpit; Bumbershoot; Bumf; Bun fight; Bunny rabbit; Burgoo; Bus; Business theatre; Bustard; Butler; Butter no parsnips; Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth; Butterfly; Butterscotch; By and large; By Hook or By Crook; By Jove; By the great horn spoon; By the skin of one’s teeth.
C C3; Cabal; Cachinnatory; Cack-handed; Cacography; Cad; Cadastral; Cadge; Café Scientifique; Caffeinol; Cagmag; Cahoot; Caitiff; Calendar terms; Calenture; Callipygian; Callithumpian; Caltrop; Camelion; Camera; Camp; Campaign; Can of worms; Can you really link a word to a year?; Cancrine; Candent; Captology; Carbon footprint; Carborexia; Card; Cardigan; Carnage; Carnal; Carpet; Carphology; Carrot and stick; Carrotmobbing; Carry the can; Carwichet; Case in point; Cash on the nail; Cast aspersions; Cataglottism; Cataract; Catawampus; Catawampus; Catbird seat; Cater-cornered; Catoptromancy; Cat's mother, the; Caudle; Caught red-handed; Cedar revolution; Celtic Tiger; Cenatory; Cento; Centre about; Centrifical force; Ceraunograph; Chad; Chaise longue or chaise lounge; Chalk and cheese; Chambers Dictionary of Etymology; Chance your arm; Charabanc; Charivari; Charley horse; Chatoyant; Chav; Cheap at half the price; Cheapskate; Cheat-bread; Cheese it!; Chemical; Chemtrail; Chequered past; Chestnut; Chew the fat; Chew the scenery; Chicanery; Chiliastic; Chill Can; Chillaxing; Chillwave; Chin wag; Chindia; Chip off the old block; Chip on one's shoulder; Chiptune; Chock-a-block; Chook; Chops; Chow; Chrestomathy; Chronicle of American Literature; Chronopsychology; Chronotherapy; Chthonic; Chuck-farthing; Chunder; Church key; Cidermaking terms; Circular; Circumbendibus; Citing online sources; Citizen journalism; Claptrap; Claytronics; Clean one’s clock; Cleanskin; Cleft stick; Clerihew;
; Clinical governance; Clinquant; Clone; Cobblers; Cobot; Cock a snook; Cock and bull story; Cock-a-hoop; Cockaigne; Cockamamie; Cockles of your heart; Cockpit; Cockshut; Cocksure; Cocktail; Cock-up; Codology; Codswallop; Cohobation; Coined by God; Coined by Shakespeare; Colcannon Night; Cold shoulder; Collaboratory; Collapse of stout party; Collective names for birds and animals; Collins English Dictionary; Collop; Collyrium; Collywobbles; Colon; Colonel; Colophonian; Colour; Colour Me Environmental; Colour words; Column; Come a cropper; Come hell or high water; Come the old soldier; Comeuppance; Commash; Commentariat; Commercial at @; Community currency; Community marriage policy; Compleat v complete; Computer-assisted journalism; Confide; Conkerer; Consilience; Contextomy; Contumely; Convivium; Cooked; Cool; Cool Britannia; Coopering; Coopetition; Cooties; Cop; Copacetic; Cop-out; Copper-fastened; Coppice; Cordial; Co-respondent; Corpus; Cosmeceutical; Costard; Costus; Coulrophobia; Country names in -stan; Countryside; Coup; Covenant marriage; Coxcomb; Crêpe hanger; Crackpot; Crap; Cream; Cream crackered; Credible; Crib; Cribellate; Cricket; Crimony; Crimping; Crinkum-crankum; Crisis memoir; Crisitunity; Crocodile tears; Cronyism; Cruciverbalist; Crumpet; Crunk; Crush; Cry all the way to the bank; Cub; Cucking-stool; Cucumber time; Cudiles or cudulles; Cull; Culpon; Culture; Culture jamming; Cunicular; Cupertino; Curate's egg; Curmudgeon; Curriculum; Curtain lecture; Cut and dried; Cut the mustard; Cut your stick; Cute as a bug’s ear; Cuts no ice; Cyber Monday; Cyberchondria; Cyberloafing; Cyberventing; Cyborg; Cymbocephalic.
D Dab hand; Dactylonomy; Daft-days; Dandiprat; Dangerous; Darby and Joan; Darg; Dark tourism; Darknet; Darwin Day; Data archaeology; Data haven; Datacasting; Dauncy; Davy Jones' locker; Daylight robbery; Dead as a doornail; Dead cat bounce; Dead reckoning; Dead ringer; Deadhead; Dealybob; Dear John letter; Deasil; Death toll; Decade names; Decimate; Deep Web; Deipnosophist; Dekko; Deliquescent; Demutualisation; Denglisch; Denigrate; Dental Spa; Depraved and Insulting English; Deprecate; Deray; Derby; Destrier; Devil to pay, the; DFY; Diabesity; Dibs; Dichotomy; Dick's hatband; Diddler; Didgeridoo; Different to; Digamy; Digital divide; Digital Radio Mondiale; Digladiation; Digs; Dilemma; Diplomacy; Discombobulate; Disgruntled and gruntled; Disintermediation; Ditto; Divagation; Dog in the manger; Dog-and-pony show; Dogme 95; Dog's life, it's a; Dogsbody; Dog-whistle politics; Doh!; Domesday; Domotics; Done and done; Donkey's years; Donnybrook; Doohickey; Doolally tap; Doozy; Dopp kit; Doryphore; Dot and carry one; DOTS; Double cream; Double possessive; Double-dog dare you; Doughboy; Doula; Down to the wire; Downshifter; Dozenal; Dracontology; Drag; Draw a blank; Dreaded lurgi; Dressed to the nines; Dress-up Thursday; Dribs and drabs; Drive-by-wire; Droogish; Drop the other shoe!; Drum and Gaff; Drunkard's cloak; Drunkorexia; Dry run; Duck soup; Ducks and drakes; Ducks in a row; Duct tape; Dude; Duke's mixture; Dumbbell; Dutch, terms using; DVD; Dwarf planet; Dwile flonking; Dydler; Dyspraxia.
E E- prefix; Eagre; Early doors; Easy pickings; Eat crow; Eat humble pie; Eat one's hat; Eat one's heart out; Eat one's words; Eat your cake and have it; Eats, Shoots and Leaves; Eavesdropper; Ebonics; Echo boomer; Eco-auditor; Eco-cement; Eco-driving; Ecofact; Ecologism; Economy-class syndrome; Econophysics; Ecotarianism; Ecotherapy; Edacious; E-day; -ee; Egg on one's face; Eggcorns; Eggplant; Egregious; Egyptian days; Election words; Electroclash; Electromagnetic hypersensitivity; Electronic cinema; Electronic paper; Electrosmog; Eleemosynary; Elephant and Castle; Ell; Embuggerance; Emmet; Emo; Empasm; Emuscation; Enchiridion; Endocrine disrupter; Engastrimyth; Engine; English is difficult; English legal language; Enormity; Enquire versus inquire; Ensorcelled; Enthuse; Enthusiast; Entitlement card; E-num; Envirocrime; Envision versus envisage; Epeolatry; Ephebicide; Ephebiphobia; Epigenome; Ergophobia; E-science; Esculent; Esprit de l’escalier; Estovers; Esurience; Etaoin shrdlu; Etheromaniac; Ethnic; E-thrombosis; Eugeroic; Euro-creep; Euroland; Europanto; Evernet; Evidence-based education; Evo-devo; E-voting; Exaltation of larks; Exception that proves the rule; Exercise bulimia; Exformation; Exoplanet; Experience; Experimental travel; Extranet; Extraordinary rendition; Eyerobics; Eyot.
F Fabless; Face the music; Facile; Factotum; Faffing; Faggot; Fainites; Fair cop; Fair dinkum; Fair to middling; Fall guy; Family; Fan; Fanboys and Overdogs; Fanfaronade; Fantods; Far From the Madding Gerund; Farb; Fardel; Farrago; Fashionista; Fast and loose; Fat lady sings, it ain't over till; Fat tax; Fatootsed; Faux Pas?; Faze; Feckless; Feebate; Femtocell; Fescennine; Fiasco; Fiddler's Green; Fiddlesticks; Fidimplicitary; Fight like Kilkenny cats; Film trailer; Fimbriated; Finagle; Financephalograph; Financial phobia; Find the lady; Fine fettle; Fink; First, Second and Third; Flabbergasted; Flagitious; Flapdoodle; Flash mob; Flat; Flavicomous; Flea in one’s ear; Fletcherise; Flibbertigibbet; Floccinaucinihilipilification; Florilegium; Flummox; Fog; Fogou; Folderol; Folksonomy; Foofaraw; Foot the bill; Footfall; For appearance's sake; For Pete’s sake; Forest; Forte; Forthwith; Fossick; Foudroyant; Foyle's Philavery; Franglais; Fratire; Freecycling; Freegan; Freelance; Free-running; Frequency of initial letters; Frick and Frack; Friend and pitcher; Frigorific; Frisbee; Fro; From cellar to dome; From pillar to post; From soup to nuts; From whence; Frontispiece; Fuck; Fuddy-duddy; Fudge; Fuliginous; Full monty, the; Funambulist; Functional food; Funk; Funner and funnest; Furbelow; Fusion inhibitor; Fustigate; Fustilugs; Fuzz.
G Gaberlunzie; Gadget; Gadzooks; Gafiate; Galanthophile; Galimatias; Gallant soldiers; Galligaskins; Gallimaufry; Gallimaufry; Gallivant; Gamification; Gander; Gandy dancer; Gantlope; Garbage in, garbage out; Garbler; Garboil; Gargalesis; Garner's Modern American Usage; Garth; Gas and gaiters; Gastro-diplomacy; Gazebo; Gazump; Gazunder; Geis; Gelotologist; Gender-neutral pronouns; Gene chip; Genetic pollution; Genetic underclass; Geocaching; Geo-engineering; Geosequestration; Geronimo; Get one's goat; Ghost names; Gibus; Gig; Gingerly; Ginglyform; Girl and youth; Git; Give it some welly; Give no quarter; Give one's eye teeth; Give someone the sack; Glamping; Glebe; Global dimming; Global distillation; Globesity; Globish; Glycomics; Gnathonic; Go hence without day; Goat and Compasses; Gobbledygook; Gobbledygook; Gobo; Gobsmacked; Going south; Going to hell in a handbasket; Going to the dogs; Goldbricking; Gold-collar worker; Golden rice; Golf; Gomer; Gone for a Burton; Gonfalon; Gong farmer; Gongoozler; Good egg; Gooding; Goody two shoes; Gorbellied; Gordon Bennett; Gorge-walking; Gormagon; Gormless; Gorp; Gossypiboma; Gotham; Gowk; Gowpen; Grapefruit; Grasp the nettle; Grass roots; Grass widow; Graveyard shift; Gravitas; Gravy train; Grawlix; Great Recession; Great Scott; Greek to me, it's (all); Green famine; Green roof; Green room; Green’s Dictionary of Slang; Greengrocer's apostrophe; Green-ink letter; Gremlin; Grey goo; Grey literature; Grid; Grid computing; Griffonage; Grime; Gringo; Grist for the mill; Grocerant; Grockle; Grog; Grok; Groovy; Groundswell; Groze; Grub; Gry words; Gubernatorial; Guddling; Guerrilla gig; Guff; Guinea pig; Guiser; Gunsel; Gurning; Gussied up; Gutkha; Guy Fawkes night; Gyp (cheat); Gyp (pain).
H Haberdasher; Hackneyed; Haggard; Ha-ha; Hairbrained; Hairy at the heel; Halcyon; Halloween words; Hammer and tongs; Handfasting; Handicapped; Handsel Monday; Hang a Louie; Hang fire; Hangover; Hap; Haplology; Happy as a clam; Happy as a sandboy; Happy as Larry; Happy slapping; Haptic; Hard graft; Hard lines; Harsh one's mellow; Harum-scarum; Haruspex; Hat trick; Hatchet Jobs and Hardball; Haute barnyard; Have one's guts for garters; Have one's work cut out; Have your cake and eat it; Head over heels; Hearth-money; Heat; Heath Robinson; Heavens to Betsy; Hebesphenomegacorona; Hebetude; Heebie-jeebies; Heighth; Heiligenschein; Hem and haw; Herb; Herf; Heroin chic; Heterography; Hidden hunger; Higgledy-piggledy; Higgler; High dudgeon; High jinks; High Street; Hill of beans; Hillbillies; Hircocervus; His nibs; Historical forms of the possessive; Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary; Hobbledehoy; Hobo; Hobson’s choice; Hocus-pocus; Hodening; Hokey-pokey; Hole in the wall; Holy cow!; Holy smoke; Home in on; Home zone; Homeshoring; Honeyfuggle; Honeymoon; Honky-tonk; Honorificabilitudinitatibus; Hoodwink; Hoo-ha; Hooker; Hooligan; Hooplehead; Hoosegow; Hoosier; Hop the twig; Hopefully; Horlicks; Horns of a dilemma; Hornswoggle; Horse latitudes; Horsefeathers; Hot desking; Hot dog; Houghmagandy; How many words in the language?; How to Promote your Dictionary; How words enter the language; How’s your father; Huckleberry; Hue; Hue and cry; Hugger-mugger; Hullaballoo; Humble pie; Humdudgeon; Humicubation; Humongous; Hundred days; Hung parliament; Hungarian notation; Hunker down; Hunky-dory; Hush puppy; Hwyl; Hybrid CD; Hydrodyne process; Hydrogen economy; Hyetal; Hyperborean; Hypercar; Hyperlocal; Hypermiling; Hypernova; Hyphen; Hypnobioscope.
I I before E except after C; I could care less; I feel good; I Love It When You Talk Retro; I should cocoa; I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears; Ice house; Ichthyophagous; Identity theft; Idioms from milling; Ignivomous; Immense chemical names; I-mode; Impeach; Impignorate; Importantly; In a trice; In cold blood; In like Flynn; In Other Words; In silico; In the field; In the Land of Invented Languages; Incalescence; Incarnadine; Incunabulum; Indefinite article before words starting with h; Indexes versus indices; Indian summer; Infandous; Influenza; Information fatigue syndrome; Information poor; Information rich; Informavore; Infowar; Infra dig; Infundibulum; Inglenook; Ingrained; Initialisms; Injecting room; Inkhorn terms; In-laws; Inplacement; Insinuendo; Insult; Interesterification; Intermercial; Internet; Internet 2; Interrobang; Interweb, Internetweb and Intertube; Intranet; Inwit; Iraqification; Iris code; Irish twins; Irregardless; Irritable male syndrome; Isabelline; Ishkabibble; It ain't over till the fat lady sings; It’s All in a Word; It's (all) Greek to me; It's a dog's life; Ivory tower; Ivy League.
J Jackalope; Jackanapes; Jackpot; Jacob's join; Jactitation; Jaculation; Jafaikan; Jake-leg; Jalopy; Jamoke; Janus-faced; Jargon of meetings; Jay-walking; Jazz; Jeep; Jejune; Jericho; Jerusalem artichoke; Jesus H Christ; Jiggery-pokery; Jimmy a lock; Jingoism; Jinx; Jobbernowl; Jocund; Joe; Joe Soap; John; John Doe; Johnny-on-the-spot; Jollop; Jolly hockey-sticks; Jorum; Josser; Joystick; Jubilee; Juju & jujube; Jukebox; Jumbo; Jumentous; Jump the shark; Jumper; Jumping Jehoshaphat; Jury rigged; Just des(s)erts.
K Kakistocracy; Kakuro; Kangaroo court; Katy bar the door; Katzenjammer; Keep it under your hat; Keep mum; Keep your eyes peeled; Keep your nose to the grindstone; Kelemenopy; Kelsey's nuts; Kerfuffle; Ketchup versus catsup; Kettle of fish; Kettling NEW ; Kibosh; Kick the bucket; Killick; Kilometre; Kilroy was here; Kilter; Kinetoscope; King Charles’s Head; Kip; Kippers and curtains; Kiss the gunner's daughter; Kit and kaboodle; Kitty; Kitty-corner; Kludge; Knock on wood; Know the ropes; Know your onions; Knucker.
L Labretifery; Lackadaisical; Ladult; Lagniappe; Language Visible; Lanthanide names; Larval therapy; Lasagne; Latrociny; Lazy Susan; Lead-pipe cinch; Lead-swinger; Leechcraft; Left holding the bag; Legal language in England; Leiotrichous; Leisure sickness; Let the cat out of the bag; Leucipottomy; Lewd; Lexiphanic; Lickety-split; Lieutenant; Life of riley; Lifestyle drug; Lightcraft; Lightning in a bottle; Like a banshee; Like the clappers; Like the dickens; Likeness; Linguistic profiling; Linhay; Linsey-woolsey; Lipogrammatist; Lippitude; Liripipe; List; List slippers; Lithophone; Living daylights, the; Lizzie Tish (or Tizzy Lish); Lo and behold; Lobbyist; Loblolly boy; Locavore; Lock, stock and barrel; Logan stone; Lollapaloosa; Lollygag; Long arm of the law; Long johns; Long tail; Longman Pronunciation Dictionary; Loo; Lope; Lord love a duck; Lorinery; Losing one's marbles; Lottery words; Lukewarm; Lycanthropy; Lynch.
M Macaronic; Machicolation; Machinima; Macilent; Macquarie Dictionary; Mad as a hatter; Mad as cheese; Mad as hops; Magiric; Magnetar; Maieutic; Mail; Make a hames of something; Make ends meet; Make no bones about it; Makebate; Making love; Malacia; Malapert; Malarkey; Mallemaroking; Malvertising; Man date; Man of straw; Mangel-wurzel; Mansuetude; Manticore; Mare’s nest; Mari-fuel; Maritorious; Marylebone stage; Mash note; Mathom; Mattoid; Maundy; Mayfair; Mazoola; McGuffin; McJob; M-commerce; MDR-TB; Mechatronics; Medium; Meeting room jargon; Megilp; Meld; Meldrew; Meme; MEMS; Menaissance; Merismus; Meritocracy; Merkin; Merrythought; Mesh radio; Mesmerise; Mess; Metamediary; Metemptosis; Methods of word formation; Metoposcopist; Metrosexual; M-government; Mickey Finn; Microcredit; Microgreens; Microtransaction; Micro-wind turbine; Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions; Migrate; Millstone around one's neck; Milquetoast; Mimsy; Mind the Gaffe; Mind your beeswax; Mind your Ps and Qs; Minigarch; Misandrist; Misogynist; Misomusist; Misplaced Modifiers; Missing opposites; Mistress; Miswanting; Mithridate; Mobisode; Mociology; Mogadored; Moggie; Molecular Archaeology; Molecular farming; Molecular gastronomy; Moletronics; Mollycoddling; Mollydooker; Moment; Mondegreens; Money words; Mongo; Moniker; Monkey wrench; Monkey’s uncle; Monkey's wedding; Mononymous; Monstering; Mooch; Mooncalf; Moonshine; Mooreeffoc; Moot point; More than one way to skin a cat; Morganatic; Morgan's Orchard; Mortarboard; Mortsafe; Mosey; Motor; Mountainboarding; Mountebank; Mournival; Moxie; Much of a Muchness; Mudlark; Mufti; Muggins; Mugwump; Muliebrious; Mullered; Mulligrubs; Mumblecore; Mummer; Mumping NEW ; Mumpsimus; Mundungus; Murder; Murder of crows; Murphy's Law; Muscle dysmorphia; Musterdevillers; Mutoscope; My giddy aunt; Mycodiesel.
N Nadgers; Naff; Naked Street; Namby-pamby; Names for phobias; Names for the next decade; Naming the rarest of atoms; Nano; Nanofood; Nanopublishing; Napping; NaSSA; Natiform; Nauseous versus nauseated; Nave; Navvy; NDM-1; Nebbishy; Needs must when the devil drives; Nellie; Nepenthes; Nescient; Net neutrality; Neurobics; Neurocinematics; Neuroeconomics; Neuromarketing; Neurosexism; Neurotheology; New; New Puritans; New York minute; News; Newspapergate; Niche; Nick of time; Niddering; Niggardly; Nihilartikel; Nincompoop; Nine days' wonder; Nineteen to the dozen; Ninnyhammer; Nipperkin; Nit-picking; Nitty-gritty; No names, no pack drill; No soap; Nocebo; Noggin; -nomics; Nonce; Nordic walking; Nostoc; Nosy parker; Not a word to Bessie!; Not by a long chalk; Not on your Nellie; Not this little black duck!; Not to be sneezed at; Nothing like leather; Notta Lotta Nottle; Nubbing-cheat; Nugiperous; Nu-metal; Nurdle; Nut-crack night; Nutraceutical; Nutrigenomics; Nychthemeron; Nye; Nympholepsy.
O Oaf; Obdiplostemonous; Obesogenic; Obnubilate; Oche; Ocker; Octothorpe; Old Dart; Old leather-arse; Olitory; Ollie ollie oxen free; Ombre; Omnibus; Omnium-gatherum; Omphaloskepsis; On a wing and a prayer; On all fours; On one’s tod; On pins and needles; On tenterhooks; On the Adrian; On the ball; On the beam; On the fritz; On the QT; On the wagon; On your uppers; Once upon a time; One another; One fell swoop; One might may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb; Oneirodynia; One-off; Onomasticon; Onomatopoeia; Onshore offshoring; Onychophagist; Ooglification; Oojah; Open source; Opisthograph; Opodeldoc; Opposite of woman-hater; Orange; Orexin; Orey-eyed; Organic; Organogram; Orientated versus oriented; Orismology; Orotund; Orrery; Orthorexia; Oscillon; Ostrobogulous; Otpotss; Out like Lottie's eye; Out of sorts; Out of whack; Over a barrel; Over the moon; Over the yardarm; Overclass; Oxford comma; Oxford Dictionary of English; Oxford Guide to Word Games; Oxter; Oyez.
P Pace egg play; Padania; Pagan; Pain versus pine; Painient; Pair of pants; Palermo scale; Palimpsest; Pall-mall; Palooka; Pander; Pandiculation; Panel; Panglossian; Panhandle; Panic; Panic button; Panjandrum; Panking pole; Panorama; Pantechnicon; Pants; Paparazzo; Paralipsis; Paraphernalia; Paregoric; Pareidolia; Paroemiological; Part brass rags; Passenger; Passive drinking; Passive survivability; Past master; Pastinaceous; Patent troll; Patibulary; Patient; Peanut gallery; Pearls of wisdom; Pear-shaped; Pecksniffian; Pelf; People Versus Persons; Peristeronic; Permission-based marketing; Personal prounouns with possessive antecdents; Personal telco; Peruse; Perverb; Petard; Peter out; Petrichor; Pettifogging; Phage therapy; Phantasmagoria; Pharmacogenomics; Pharming; Pharology; Phen-fen; Phenology; Phenomenon; Philanthropreneur; Philogynist; Phishing; Phobias; Photo cut-outs; Phytoremediation; Picadil; Picayune; Picnic; Pico-projector; Pie; Pie in the sky; Piepowder; Piffy on a rock bun; Pig in a poke; Piggyback; Pigs might fly; Pigwidgeon; Pilcrow; Pilgarlic; Pillaloo; Pinch of salt; Pinchbeck; Pinguescence; Pinkie; Piping hot; Pitch; Pitmatic; Placeshifting; Plain English Campaign Awards 2002; Plain English Campaign Awards 2003; Planet; Play fast and loose; Play it by ear; Pleased as Punch; Plenilune; Plonk; Pluck the gowans fine; Plurals in -en; Pluton; Pocillovy; Pod slurping; Podcasting; Po-faced; Pogey; Pogonotrophy; Point-blank; Polari; Policy wonk; Pollyanna; Polyamory; Polychronic; Polypill; Pom; Poodle-faker; Pop goes the weasel; Pop one's clogs; Popinjay; Poppycock; Poppysmic; Port Out, Starboard Home; Portal site; Portfolio; Portolan; Posh; Positronic; Possessive apostrophes; Posset; Potboiler; POTUS; Pound; Pound abbreviation lb; Pracademic; Prat; Prebuttal; Precision of Lexicographers; Predominately versus predominantly; Preposterous; Presenteeism; Presidential Voices; Pretty; Prevent; Prick-me-dainty; Pridian; Prion; Probiotic; Problemsome; Prodnose; Promession; Pronoia; Pronunciation of sugar and sure; Proof of the pudding; Prosumer; Proteome; Proteomics; Protologism; Ps and Qs, mind your; Psytrance; Pulchritudinous; Pull (out) the plug; Pulling one's leg; Punchline; Punctuation and quotation marks; Purdonium; Purl; Purse-lipped; Push technology; Push the envelope; Pusillanimous; Put on (the) dog; Put the kibosh on something; Put the mockers on; PVR; Pyknic.
Q Q followed by U; Quack; Quadricycle; Quantum; Qubit; Queen of Spain's Legs; Queer somebody's pitch; Queer Street; Quidnunc; Quillon; Quinquagenary; Quiz; Quocker-wodger; Quodlibet.
R Railway words; Raining cats and dogs; Rambunctious; Ramping cat; Range; Rannygazoo; Rantipole; Rare earth names; Rasorial; Raw foodism; Read the riot act; Real; Real McCoy, the; Reality fighting; Rear its ugly head; Rebarbative; Receipt versus recipe; Recessionista; Recreational grief; Red herring; Redding; Red-letter day; Refugee; Regender; Replica; Restaurateur; Restive versus restless; Retail anthropologist; Reticent versus reluctant; Reticule; Retort; Retronym; RFID; Rhadamanthine; Rhapsodomancy; Rhinotillexomania; Rhopalic; Rhykenology; Richard Snary; Riff-raff; Right as rain; Rigmarole; Ringer; Ripsnorter; Riskometer; Road; Road metal; Robinsonade; Robot; Rocket; Rod; Rodomontade; Roger; Rogue; Roister-doister; Roo; Rookery; Ross-on-Wye; Round robin; Round the bend; Rub of the green; Rule of thumb; Rum do; Rumbledethumps; Run of the mill; Rush the growler; Ruthless.
S Sabermetrician; Sabrage; Safe as Houses; Saggar; Salad days; Salmagundi; Salt of the earth; Sam Hill; San fairy ann; Sand; Sandy-grey russet; Sapid; Sarcophagus; Sardoodledom; SARS; Satisfactory; Saturnalia; Saved by the bell; Saviour sibling; Say (or cry) uncle; Scacchic; Scalene; Scallywag; School gate mum; Sciolist; Scofflaw; Scombroid; Scot free; Scotch; Scran; Screaming ab-dabs; Screenager; Scrimshaw; Scrumping; Scutching; Scuttlebutt; Sea change; Seaborgium; See a man about a dog; Seersucker; See-saw; Segue; Semordnilap; Send to Coventry; Sennight; Sentimental; Sequacious; Serendipity; Sesquipedalian; Settle a score; Set-top box; Sferics; Shade; Shag; Shaggy dog story; Shake a stick at; Shank's mare; Sha'n't versus shan't; Shanty; Sharpshooter; Shellacking; Shemozzle; Shenanigan; Shilling ordinary; Shindig; Shirttail relative; Shit; Shivaree; Shiver my timbers; Shock and Awe; Shoestring; Shoo-in; Shoot one's cuffs; Shopdropping; Short shrift; Shot; Shovel-ready; Shrink; Shrinking violet; Shufti; Shyster; Sick abed on two chairs; Sick as a dog; Silicon; Silver bullet; Simoleon; Since Hector was a pup; Single cream; Singular or plural verb with none; Singular they; Singultient; Sisyphean; Sitooterie; Sitting by Nellie; Sixpenny nails; Skedaddle; Skell; Skew-whiff; Skillygalee; Skimble-skamble; Skimmington; Skin a cat; Skinny; Skive; Skivvies; Skosh; Skulduggery; Skunk works; Sky-blue pink; Sky-surfing; Slang; Slang: The People's Poetry; Slanging match; Sledging; Sleep tight; Sleeping one's head into train oil; Sling one's hook; Slipshod; Slow travel; Slubberdegullion; Slumgullion; Smaragdine; Smart Alec; Smart as paint; Smart gun; Smartbook; Smarty pants; Smellfeast; Smiley; Smouch; Snarge; Snickersnee; Snit; Snob; Snollygoster; So dull you could ride to China on them; Soapbox; Social jet lag; Social software; Sock it to them; Sockdolager; Soft sawder; Sojourner; Solar sail; Solutions journalism; Sonic cruiser; Sonofusion; Sophisticated; Sophrosyne; Soup and fish; Souped-up; Sous-Sherpa; Southpaw; Sow one's wild oats; Spade; Spamdexing; Spanghew; Spanish practices; Spatchcock; Spatterdashes; Spelling bee; Spelunking; Spendthrift; Spermodynamics; Sphairistike; Sphragistics; Spick and span; Spiff; Spifflicate; Spinster; Spintronics; Spitting feathers; Spitting image; Spiv; Spoil; Spoken Web; Spondulicks; Sponging-house; Spoonerism; Sport one's oak; Spot of tea; Sputnik; Squabash; Squalamine; Square; Square meal; Squaw; Squilgee; Staddle; Stag-deflation; Stammel; Stannator; Staple; Star Trek; Stars and garters; Start from scratch; State of the art; Stationary versus stationery; Staycation; Steal one's thunder; Steam radio; Steganography; Stemwinder; Step-; Sternutatory; Stick one's oar in; Stick-in-the-mud; Sticky wicket; Stiff upper lip; Stillicide; Stone the crows; Stonking; Stool pigeon; Stoozing; Stories of English; Stotting; Strait and narrow; Stramonium; Struthonian; Stultiloquy; Stylite; Subfusc; Sublime; Sub-prime; Suburb; Sudoku; Suffonsified; Sulphur; Sundae; Sunday throat; Surrebutter; Swag; Swain; Swamper; Swan song; Swan-upping; Swashbuckling; Swazzle; Swearing on one's testicles; Swoose; Sycophant; Symbols in arithmetic; Symploce; Synaesthete; Synecdoche and metonymy; Synthespian; Synthetic biology; Syzygy.
T Tabloid; Tabnabs; Tacky; Tacky; Taghairm; Take a powder; Take the biscuit; Take the mickey; Take the piss; Talaria; Talk turkey; Tall tale; Tantivy; Tapping the Admiral; Taqwacore; Target; Tarred with the same brush; Tatterdemalion; Tattoo; Tautochrone; Tawdry; Tax; Taxi; Tchotchke; Teaching one's grandmother to suck eggs; Teamspace; Techgnosis; Technorealist; Teetotal; Teetotum; Teknonymy; Tele-; Teleplasmic; Televersity; Television 2.0; Teller; Tempest in a teapot; Tergiversate; Termagant; Terms using Dutch; Terraforming; Terrific; Tetrapyloctomy; Thaumaturgy; The abbreviation pp; The Adventure of English; The Art of Punctuation / A Dash of Style; The balloon’s gone up NEW ; The cyber- prefix; The elephant in the room; The F Word; The First English Dictionary of Slang; The Grouchy Grammarian; The Meaning of Tingo; The mighty burger; The New Oxford American Dictionary; The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang; The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English; The Ring of Words; The Superior Person’s Third Book of Words; The whole megillah; The whole shebang; Thelemic; Theodolite; Therapeutic cloning; There's the rub; Therianthrope; Thin client; Thinspiration; Third Way; Third word ending in gry; Three books in brief; Three sheets in the wind; Three-card monte; Three-card trick; Through the grapevine; Through the Language Glass; Through the mill; Throw a tub to a whale; Throw in the towel; Thrown for a loop; Thwart; Tickety-boo; Tiddlywinks; Tide one over; Tiffin; Time out of mind; Tincture; Tinhorn; Tinker's damn; Tinny; Tint; Tintinnabulation; Tip; Titch; Titivil; Titubation; To a T; To be in someone's black books; To boot; To buy the farm; To wit; Toad-eater; Toad-in-the-hole; Toast; Toe the line; Toe-rag; Toise; Tolfraedic; Tolley; Tom; Ton; Tontine; Top dog; Top notch; Topsy-turvy; Totter; Touch wood; Tourism; Toxicogenomics; Tracklements; Traffic evaporation; Transition Town; T-ray; Trebuchet; Triacle; Trig and trim; Trimmer; Trip the light fantastic; Triple-drug therapy; Tripudiate; Triskaidekaphobia; Trivial; Troop; Troubleshoot; Truckle; True facts; Truepenny; Trussell; Truthiness; Try and; Tsar; Tub thumping; Tufthunter; Tumbarumba; Turducken; Turgescent; Turkey; Turlough; Turn up for the book; Turnpike; Tussie-mussie; Twaddle; Twee; Tweenager; Tweenie; Twenty-three Skidoo; Twixter; Two Brewer's Dictionaries; Two hoots; Two-car funeral; Two-factor authentication.
U Ugsome; Ullage; Ultimo; Ultracrepidarian; Umami; Umquhile; UMTS; Un- versus In-; Unclarity; Unconference; Under weigh; Understand; Unfriend; Union; Unipedal; Unobtanium; Unputdownable; Until, till and 'til; Up in Annie's room; Up the creek; Up to snuff; Up to speed; Upsidaisy; Upsizing; Upskilling; Urban gaming; Urtication; Usufructuary.
W W00t; Waddle; Waffling; Wait; Waiting for the other shoe to drop; Walker!; WAP; -ward versus -wards; Wassail; Watch; Water banking; Water war; Watershed; Wave and pay; Wax poetic; Ways of eating; Wayzgoose; Weaved or wove?; Web 2.0; Web ring; Webucation; Weeds in the Garden of Words; Weightless economy; Weird; Weird and Wonderful Words; Welfare; Well heeled; Well, blow me!; West Brit; Wet day centre; Wet one's whistle; What Paddy shot at; Whelmed; Where it's at; Which came first: he or she?; Which versus that; While versus whilst; While versus wile; Whilom; Whim-wham for a goose's bridle; Whip round; Whistle-stop tour; White lie; Whole ball of wax; Whole cloth; Whole kit and kaboodle; Whole nine yards, the; Whopper-jawed; Whose; Why is Q Always Followed by U?; Whys and wherefores; Widdiful; Widget; Widow’s peak; Widowered; Wigg; Wigs on the green; Wigwam for a goose's bridle; Wikitorial; Wild West; Wildfire; Will-o'-the-wisp; Windy City; Wine bottle sizes; Wine names; Wireless Application Protocol; Wiseacre; Witching hour; Within a gnat's ...; Wittol; Wobbegong; Woebegone; Wonk; Won't; Word formation; Word formation through blends; Word Histories and Mysteries; Word of finger; Word Origins and How We Know Them; Words about elections; Words for colours; Words for drinks; Words for ghouls and ghosts; Words for liquors; Words for multiples; Words for natural fibres; Words for parts of the UK; Words for sums of money; Words for the numbers following ten; Words for the rare earth elements; Words from Star Trek; Words from Malay; Words from tourism; Words from Welsh; Words in cyber-; Words in e-; Words in -ee; Words in tele-; Words of 1997; Words of 1998; Words of 2001; Words of 2002; Words of the Year 2007; Words with no opposites; Words, Words, Words; Work; Work cut out; Wormwood; Worth the candle; Writing and Script; Wrong side of the bed.
X XDR-TB; Xenoglossy; Xenotransplantation; Xenozoonosis; Xeric.
Y Yaffle; Yaoi; Yclept; Ye gods and little fishes!; Year's mind; Yehudi did it; Yonks; Your name is mud; Yuhangyuan; Yuletide.
Z Zany; Zenzizenzizenzic; Zilch; Zip; Zograscope; Zoochosis; Zorbing; Zymurgy.
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Bücher zur Kategorie:
Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology
UK Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte, Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Wörterbuch, Diccionario, Dictionnaire, Vocabolario, Dictionary
Synopsis
The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English language: acronyms (nimby), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an A-Z format with detailed cross references, and written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Word Origins is a valuable historical guide to the English language.
Kurzbeschreibung
What is the difference between "mean" and "median", "blatant" and "flagrant", "flout" and "flaunt"? Is it "whodunnit" or "whodunit"? Do you know? Are you sure? With "Troublesome Words", journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage and spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say 'an historic day', this superb book is the place to find out.
Erstellt: 2010-06
C
Conley, Craig (Autor)
One-Letter Words, a Dictionary
Kurzbeschreibung
Merriam-Webster, move over! Until now, no English dictionary ever found the fun or the fascination in revealing the meanings of letters. "One-Letter Words, A Dictionary" illuminates the more than 800 surprising definitions associated with each letter in the English alphabet. For instance, Conley uncovers 69 different definitions for the letter X, the most versatile and printed letter in the English language. Using facts, figures, quotations, and etymologies, the author provides a complete and enjoyable understanding of the one-letter word. With the letter B, Conley teaches us that its many different meanings span multiple subjects including science - B denotes a blood type and also is a symbol for the element Boron on the Periodic table - and history - in the Middle Ages, B was branded on a blasphemer's forehead. With the letter A, he reminds us that A is not only a bra size, but also a musical note. This book is the essential desk companion, gift, or reference volume for a vast array of readers, puzzle lovers, teachers, students, librarians, or armchair linguists. Once they pick it up they'll never be able to put it down.
When the White Queen of Looking Glass fame bragged that she could read words of one letter, she beseeched Alice not to be discouraged, promising "You'll come to it in time." Indeed, the Queen's one letter word vocabulary was more comprehensive than one might first assume.
A word is any letter or group of letters which has meaning and is used as a unit of language.
So even though there are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, they stand for over seven hundred distinct units of meaning.
An abbreviation, on the other hand, is a letter used in place of a larger word. It is usually capitalized.
An abbreviation is not a word. Therefore, abbreviations in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words are clearly marked as such.
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Erstellt: 2010-06
Cresswell, Julia (Autor)
Insect That Stole Butter?
Kurzbeschreibung
Readership: Suitable for language enthusiasts and language students, or any adult or young person interested in words and their development; academic libraries; dictionary compilers. An accessible, lively A-Z of over 3,000 words and their origins, drawn from Oxford's unrivalled dictionary research and language monitoring. Ideal for language lovers and students alike, The Insect That Stole Butter? relates the fascinating stories behind many of our most curious words and expressions.
Erstellt: 2011-11
Crystal, David (Autor)
The Story of English in 100 Words
Die umfassende Darstellung des relevanten deutschen und englischen Wortschatzes mit zahlreichen Anwendungsbeispielen, idiomatischen Wendungen und Redensarten. Rund 300 000 Stichwörter und Wendungen und ca. 470 000 Übersetzungen. Mit wertvollen Zusatzinformationen zu Wortgebrauch und Grammatik sowie thematischen Wortlisten und Grafiken.ISBN 3-411-06449-8
39.95 € [D] | 73.00 SFr | 41.40 € [A]
04.11.2005: Dieser Artikel ist noch nicht im Handel.
Amazon.com
If you are a logophile with cacoëthes scribendi, but your stomach simply wambles when you can't find the perfect word, perendinate no more. Logogogue Charles Harrington Elster, clearly an aristophren, has a cure for logolepts in this compendium of grandisonant scholasms, which are both aureate and inkhorn. If fear of altiloquence gives you graphospasm or makes you spartle, don't croosle. Just remember: sophrosyne is recommended. (Translation: If you are a word lover with an incurable itch to write, but your stomach simply rumbles when you can't find the perfect word, delay no more. Word leader Charles Harrington Elster, clearly a person with a superior intellect, has a cure for people who have seizures about words in this compendium of great-sounding learned words, which are both florid and pedantic. If fear of pomposity gives you writer's cramp or makes you flail about, don't whimper. Just remember: wise moderation is recommended.)
From Publishers Weekly
For inveterate browsers who can't look up one entry in an encyclopedia without becoming immersed in others, this new book from word-maven Freeman (A Treasury for Word Lovers) will provide hours of informative pleasure. His format is straightforward, discussing the etymologies or, often, the possible though unconfirmed lineages of selected words from abracadabra to zenith. But as he delves into biography, literature, languages and social history to explain how the words and their meanings have changed through time, one avenue or aside inevitably leads to another. A single entry may proceed logically from vanilla to chocolate to cocoa to coconut; metaphorically, from candidate to ambition; or, surreally, from maroon to cimarron to chestnut. Bet you can't read just one.
Funk, Charles Earle
2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings & Expressions
From White Elephants to Song Dance
Synopsis
This fascinating reference includes four previously published best-selling titles:
A Hog on Ice,
Thereby Hangs a Tale,
Heavens to Betsy! and
Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words.
Product Description
Why do people "take 40 winks" and not 50...or 60, or 70? Did someone literally "let the cat out of the bag" at one point in time? Has anyone actually "gone on a wild goose chase"? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in this enormous collection, comprised of four bestselling titles: A Hog on Ice, Thereby Hangs a Tale, Heavens to Betsy! and Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words. Dr. Funk, editor-in-chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series, reveals the sometimes surprising, often amusing, and always fascinating roots of more than 2,000 vernacular words and expressions. From "kangaroo court" to "one-horse town", from "face the music" to "hocus-pocus," it's an entertaining linguistic journey.
Funk, Charles Earle
Heavens to Betsy & Other Curious Sayings
Product Description
He's as mad as a hatter!
Whether it's like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we've never really known why ... until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains more than 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings has an interesting story behind its origin.
If you've ever wondered why when you're in a hurry you are told to hold your horses, wonder no more!
About the Author
Charles Earle Funk was editor in chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books on word and phrase origins, including Horsefeathers, Heavens to Betsy!, and Thereby Hangs a Tale.
Funk, Charles Earle
Thereby Hangs a Tale
Stories of Curious Word Origins
The Greek root of school means leisure.
A language where hearse and rehearse have the same root and the word dunce comes from a great philosopher, English has hundreds of every day words that originated or acquired their meaning in unusual ways. Dictionaries don't have the space to tell us all the mysteries, but now Dr. Funk, with humor and insight, tells us the strange and intriguing stories of hundreds of words and how they came to be a part of our language.
About the Author
Charles Earle Funk was editor in chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series. He wrote several other books on word and phrase origins, including Horsefeathers, Heavens to Betsy!, and Thereby Hangs a Tale.
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Garg, Anu (Autor)
The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two
The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words
The founder of Wordsmith.org explores the fascinating origins and history behind more than three hundred words, names, terms, and phrases, including the etymology of such items as deipnosophist, philomath, illeist, accismus, petrichor, and more
Kurzbeschreibung
From the creator of the popular A.Word.A.Day e-mail newsletter
A collection of some of the most interesting stories and fascinating origins behind more than 300 words, names, and terms by the founder of WordSmith.org.
Did you know:
There’s a word for the pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell? Petrichor, combining petros (Greek for stone) and ichor (the fluid that flows in the veins of Greek gods).
An illeist is one who refers to oneself in the third person.
There’s a word for feigning lack of interest in something while actually desiring it: accismus.
For any aspiring deipnosophist (a good conversationalist at meals) or devoted Philomath (a lover of learning), this anthology of entertaining etymology is an ideal way to have fun while getting smarter.
Erstellt: 2011-06
Garrison, Webb B.
Casual Lex
An Informal Assemblage of Why We Say What We Say
Synopsis
This fascinating collection of anecdotes about words and phrases explains that a "bikini" was named after a Pacific island where the atomic bomb was tested because men who first saw it reacted as if it were an atom bomb - and that a person who "knows the ropes" is experienced like a sailor who mastered the complex tangle of ropes on a ship. The book contains stories behind over 600 everyday words and phrases such as ... "Shindig" - A veteran square dance caller will tell you that "bruised shins" result from the swigging feet of beginning dancers. A dance that leaves telltale marks on the lower legs of participants is a "shindig". "Alibi" - The word is taken straight from Latin and means "elsewhere". The perfect "alibi" is to prove one was "elsewhere" when the deed was done. And many more...
Erstellt: 2010-06
H
Hodgson, Charles
Global Wording
The Fascinating Story of the Evolution of English
Product Description
In the same engaging style and humor that has attracted 4.5 million downloads of the Podictionary podcast, Global Wording traces the development of our language using easily recognizable milestones such as Beowulf, William the Conqueror, Chaucer and Shakespeare. Rather than relying on scores of dates and boring facts, Hodgson instead punctuates his story with anecdotes about why these characters were so memorable, as well as interesting details on how we know what we know and the conditions of life over the years as they affected the growth of our language.
Kurzbeschreibung
The Oxford English Dictionary required Alex Horne to prove that his made-up words were being widely used before it would insert them into its venerable publication. Find out if any of Alex’s words make it into the OED in this delightful and entertaining book.
Über den Autor
Alex Horne co-created, writes and co-hosts the new comedy quiz We Need Answers airing soon on BBC4. He is widely renowned among critics, comics and audiences as a thoughtful and original stand-up, writer and solo performer and has many TV and radio credits under his belt. Alex's first book Birdwatchingwatching was published by Virgin Books in January 2009.
Produktbeschreibung des Herstellers
Langenscheidts beliebtes Euro-Wörterbuch auf CD-ROM jetzt mit völlig neu entwickelter Software des e-Wörterbuchs und neu bearbeitetem Inhalt. Die Software, die die Reihen "PC-Bibliothek" und "Pop-up" zusammenführt und viele Extras aufweist, bietet den höchsten Stand der Technik zum günstigen Preis. FEATURES: - Aktueller Wortschatz mit insgesamt rund 50.000 Stichwörtern und Wendungen - Rund 15.000 englische Stichwörter in bester Qualität vertont, von Muttersprachlern gesprochen - Vielfältige Suchmöglichkeiten mit neuer Schnellsuche: Erkennen von Mehrwortbegriffen, Wendungen und insgesamt über einer Million von gebeugten Wortformen, die für die richtige Übersetzung auf das Stichwort zurückgeführt werden, z. B. lud ... ein > einladen > invite - Komfortables Nachschlagen aus anderen Programmen mithilfe der preisgekrönten Pop-up-Funktion: per Mausklick auf einen Begriff in den Windows-Programmen oder im Internet wird der passende Wörterbucheintrag in einer Sprechblase angezeigt - Kostenlose Online-Aktualisierung der Wörterbuchinhalte per Download aus dem Internet - Neu gestaltete Benutzeroberfläche mit optimalem Bedienungskomfort - Mit den älteren Titeln der Reihe PC-Bibliothek kombinierbar.
Produktbeschreibungen
Wörterbuch auf CD-ROM mit rund 50.000 Stichwörtern und Wendungen, 15.000 englischen Stichwörtern, vielfältige Suchmöglichkeiten. Für Windows 98, SE, ME, NT, 2000 und XP., Hersteller: HMH Hamburger Medien Haus, Marke: Langenscheidt
Produktbeschreibung des Herstellers
Die neue Dimension elektronischer Wörterbücher für Profis: das Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Englisch in der völlig neu entwickelten Software-Reihe der e-Wörterbücher.
Wörterbuchinhalt mit insgesamt rund 245.000 Stichwörtern und Wendungen sowie zahlreichen Neuwörtern.
Vielfältige Suchoptionen mit neuer Schnellsuche: Erkennen von Mehrwortbegriffen und Wendungen sowie Zugriff auf über eine Million Wortformen - im Englischen und im Deutschen! -, die für die richtige Übersetzung auf ihre Grundform zurückgeführt werden,z.B. lud ... ein - einladen - invite
Komfortables Nachschlagen aus anderen Programmen mithilfe der preisgekrönten Pop-up-Funktion
Wortschatz-Aktualisierung per Download aus dem Internet
Sprachausgabe in Top-Qualität - von Muttersprachlern gesprochen - zu rund 15.000 englischen Stichwörtern (britisches und amerikanisches Englisch)
Für alle PC-Nutzer, die ein großes Wörterbuch für Englisch auf dem neuesten Stand der Technik suchen
Über das Produkt
n mit neuer Schnellsuche: Erkennen von Mehrwortbegriffen, Wendungen und hunderttausenden von flektierten Wortformen - im Englischen und im Deutschen! -, die für die richtige Übersetzung auf ihre Grundform zurückgeführt werden (z.B. lud ... ein einladen invite)õKomfortables Nachschlagen aus anderen Programmen mithilfe der preisgekrönten Pop-up-FunktionõAktueller Inhalt der jüngsten Neubearbeitung des Taschenwörterbuches Englisch mit insgesamt rund 120.000 Stichwörtern und WendungenõTop-Sprachausgabe zu rund 15.000 englischen Stichwörtern (britisches und amerikanisches Englisch)õFür alle Computerbenutzer, die ein Standardwörterbuch für Englisch mit leistungsstarker Software suchenõENDõõ
Produktbeschreibungen
CD-ROM für Windows 95/98/NT4.0/2000/XP. Englisch-Deutsch/Deutsch-Englisch. Rund 120.000 Stichwörter und Wendungen. Zugriff auf hunderttausende von Wortformen. Wortschatz-Aktualisierung über das Internet. Erschienen 05.2002.
Kurzbeschreibung
Das neu bearbeitete Universal-Wörterbuch Englisch, herausgegeben vom Langenscheidt Fremdsprachenverlag beinhaltet über 36.000 Stichwörter und Wendungen mit klaren Bedeutungsdifferenzierungen und zahlreichen Anwendungsbeispielen. Neben dem allgemeinen Wortschatz gibt es viele Einträge aus den Bereichen Reise, Freizeit, Gastronomie, Sport und Fitness. Komplett neu ist der große Extrateil mit vielen Reisetipps von A - Z. Außerdem umfasst das Wörterbuch Informationen zu Zahlen, Speisekarten und einen Mini-Dolmetscher für wichtige Sprechsituationen. Mit den blauen Stichwörtern ist eine sehr schnelle Orientierung möglich. Zum schnellen Nachschlagen auf Reisen und für den fremdsprachlichen Anfangsunterricht.
Liberman, Anatoly
Word Origins... and How We Know Them
Etymology for Everyone
Synopsis
Word Origins is the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, an internationally acclaimed etymologist, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Part history, part how-to, and completely entertaining, Word Origins invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.
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"Millions of people want to know the origin of the words they use. Word columns in daily newspapers and numerous books attempt to satisfy their curiosity. Word histories are usually digested like pills: the user is interested in getting well, not in the chemistry of the prescribed medication. Those who send letters to the Editor also want a straight answer without bothering about how "editors" come by their knowledge. Therefore, they fail to realize that etymologies are seldom definitive and that the science of etymology is intensely interesting. Perhaps if someone explained to them that, compared to the drama of words, Hamlet is a light farce, they might develop a more informed attitude toward philological research and become students of historical linguistics rather than gullible consumers of journalists' pap." This is how Anatoly Liberman begins Etymology for Everyone, the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, a world-renowned etymologist, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Part history, part how-to, and completely entertaining, Etymology for Everyone invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.
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McKee, Richard
The Clan of the Flapdragon and other Adventures in Etymology
by B.M.W. Schrapnel, PhD
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With the advent of B. M. W. Schrapnel, Ph.D., it seems that etymology has found its P. D. Q. Bach. Just as Peter Schickele - "discoverer" of several manuscripts of P. D. Q. Bach, last child of the prolific Johann Sebastian - lampoons baroque music and its performance with P. D. Q.'s schleptets and serenudes, so does Richard McKee, creator of B. M. W., parody Safirean language mavens, and nearly everyone else. The essays in "The Clan of the Flapdragon" and their accompanying "letters from readers," which originally appeared in the literary magazine Oasis, are dense, satiric, and at times quite academic. Does the "Bop 'Til You Drop" bumpersticker on a late-model Lincoln advocate that you dance all night, jazz it up till the wee hours, or "fornicate until you faint"? If poon is a type of East Indian tree and tang is (a) a Chinese dynasty; (b) the small end of a knife; or (c) a verb meaning "to ring loudly," then "how in the bloody hell poontang is synonymous with sexual intercourse ... beats the poop out of me!" In "What to Buy Your Wordmonger," Schrapnel recommends a specific Shakespeare edition: "It is a 1937 edition, but you know the Bard. He has not written a word lately." The same essay advises that "if noxious sedatives are your bent, there is The Bridges of Madison County (still) and its author's relapse, Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend." And in a speech to the International Society for Unbelievably Preposterous Prose, Schrapnel tells writers hoping to be published that "if you are unbelievably lucky and somehow drop your manuscript on the right desk at the right time ... well, think of all of those postage stamps as lottery tickets."
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The pseudonymous critic featured in this book satirizes a variety of subjects in and out of academe. It includes lampoons on writing, language, and literature in a spoof of contemporary culture.
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Quinion, Michael
Port Out, Starbord Home: And Other Language Myths
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What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet and the use of email has increased the circulation of (usually) false tales about the evolution of language. In this entertaining and fascinating new book on the origins of words and expressions, Michael Quinion retells the mythic tales that have become popular currency - the word 'posh' deriving from 'port out, starboard home' - and also tries to find and explain the true stories behind the origins of phrases. Quinion offers explanations of why and how stories about words are created, and how misunderstanding word origins - while usually harmless - can have serious consequences.
About the Author
Michael Quinion has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of New Words (2nd edition), edited the weekly Daily Telegraph new words column, and is author of a dictionary of affixes, Ologies and Isms (OUP). Since 1996 he has produced the weekly e-newsletter World Wide Words, which has an associated website. He lives in Bristol.
Erstellt: 2010-06
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Steinmetz, Sol / Kipfer, Barbara Ann (Autor)
The Life of Language
The Fascinating Ways Words are Born, Live & Die
Kurzbeschreibung
If time travelers from the nineteenth century dropped in on us, our strange vocabulary would shock them just as much as our TVs, cars, and computers. Society changes, and so does its word stock. The Life of Language reveals how pop culture, business, technology, and other forces of globalization expand and enrich the English language, forming thousands of new words every year. In this fascinating and jargon-free guide, lexicographers Kipfer and Steinmetz reconstruct the births of thousands of words, including infantries, poz, mobs, Soho, dinks, choo choos, frankenfoods, LOL, narcs and perps.
· A word lover’s guide to etymology, written in a fun, informal, and accessible style
· An excellent resource for vocabulary building; a word's root helps readers understand its meaning
· Beautifully packaged paperback with French flaps
Stockwell, Robert / Minkova, Donka
English Words - History and Structure
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English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages. It surveys the historical events that define the layers of vocabulary in English, introduces some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis, and is a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. Exercises accompanying each chapter and further readings on recent loans and the legal and medical vocabulary of English will be available online in the near future. * Introduces students to some basic linguistic terms needed for the discussion of phonological and morphological changes accompanying word formation * Designed to lead students to a finer appreciation of their language and greater ability to recognize relationships between words and discriminate between meanings * An informative appendix discusses the history and usefulness of the best known British and American dictionaries * Online readings and exercises to deepen and strengthen knowledge acquired in the classroom
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Tulloch, Alexander (Autor)
Word Routes
Journeys Through Etymology
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Why aren't bald eagles bald? Why are gnomes in fact enormous? What connects Russian bears with videos? The answers can all be found in the history of the words themselves, and in Word Routes Alexander Tulloch gives us the fascinating stories behind more than five hundred of them. Language sleuth (meaning 'one who follows a path') Tulloch traces the routes of more than five hundred English words through time and across the globe. He shows us the surprising, amusing twists, turns and encounters between words on their long journeys into modern English. For instance the Keres, Greek goddesses of destruction who haunted Homeric battlefields dressed in blood-soaked robes, would probably be a little miffed to learn that the only decay with which they are today synonymous is tooth decay, or caries. Neither a straightforward dictionary of etymology nor a linear history of language, Word Routes an entertaining alphabetical guide to the stories behind many everyday words. It is an ideal book for journalists, teachers, historians or simply anyone who is interested in the fascinating story of the English language.