Summer Stargazer

Science & Math

CLAIBORNE, ROBERT

Astronomy & Space Science

Penguin??Books

Climate, man and history

Angus&Robertson

In hundreds of dictionary-type entries, ranging from "Acronyms" to "Y'know," the author of "Our Marvellous Native Tongue" insists on clarity as the touchstone of good usage

Saying What You Mean

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Ballantine Books

Explains the origins and original meanings of common metaphors and expressions from ace in the hole to zero-sum

Loose Cannons and Red Herrings: A Book of Lost Metaphors

The richest of languages, English contains some 600,000 words OED . Of these perhaps 450,000 are in current use. Clairborne discusses the sources of the language in general, then specifically describes the Germanic, Latin, Greek roots of our words. A delightful browse with much value as a reference. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Roots of English, The

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Anchor

Saying What You Mean: A Commonsense Guide to American Usage

Catalogs & Directories

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Exlains the origins and original meanings of common metaphors and expressions from ace in the hole to zero-sum

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Climate, man, and history

Norton

The science writer refutes the ideas of Desmond Morris, B. F. Skinner, and others in presenting his theory about human behavior and man's evolutionary lineage

God or Beast; Evolution and Human Nature

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

A colorful compendium of everyday words and phrases and where they originated. The English language is a treasury of splendid mysteries, among them the many words and phrases whose origins we no longer know. Often the original meaning was literal, pertaining to forgotten objects or activities―such as "aftermath," which once meant the grass that sprang up after a farmer had mowed a field. With the informal scholarship and good-humored wit that are his trademarks, Robert Claiborne reveals the wonders buried in our speech, vivid images of people and customs of the past. As the reader soon discovers, they are "a sort of hidden poetry that can heighten the colors and sharpen the meanings of words and phrases that we read or write daily."

Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors

W.W.Norton&Company

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