03074cam a2200325 4500 529655698 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781541698635 1541698630 B01IAIZAAS Amazon 7e5c3fdc-034a-49b4-86af-09e64100f029 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2725592 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Simpson, John. The Word Detective [Libby] : Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary. Basic Books, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1472kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1732kB. Biography & Autobiography. Language Arts. Nonfiction. HTML:Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you?<br /> The answers to all of these questions — and a great many more — can be found in the pages of the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief editor of the <i>OED</i>, John Simpson. Simpson spent almost four decades of his life immersed in the intricacies of our language, and guides us through its history with charmingly laconic wit. In <i>The Word Detective</i>, an intensely personal memoir and a joyful celebration of English, he weaves a story of how words come into being (and sometimes disappear), how culture shapes the language we use, and how technology has transformed not only the way we speak and write but also how words are made.<br /> Throughout, he enlivens his narrative with lively excavations and investigations of individual words — from <i>deadline</i> to <i>online</i> and back to <i>101</i> (yes, it's a word) — all the while reminding us that the seemingly mundane words (can you name the four different meanings of <i>ma</i>?) are often the most interesting ones. But Simpson also reminds us of the limitations of language: spending his days in the <i>OED</i>'s house of words, his family at home is forced to confront the challenges of wordlessness.<br /> A brilliant and deeply humane expedition through the world of words, <i>The Word Detective</i> will delight and inspire any lover of language. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7e5c3fdc-034a-49b4-86af-09e64100f029&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7e5c3fdc-034a-49b4-86af-09e64100f029&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7e5c3fdc-034a-49b4-86af-09e64100f029&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)