The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
The Story of Ain’t by David Skinner is the captivating true chronicle of the creation of Merriam Webster’s Third New International Dictionary in 1961, the most controversial dictionary ever published. Skinner’s surprising and engaging, erudite and witty account will enthrall fans of Winchester’s The Professor and the Madman and The Meaning of Everything, and The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, as it explores a culture in transition and the brilliant, colorful individuals behind it.
Listening to the News Voice of America is a three-book series designed to improve listening comprehension skills for academic purposes while providing interesting topics related to culture, news, and current events.
Listening to the News Voice of America is a three-book series designed to improve h comprehension skils for iicademic purposes while providing interesting topics related to culture, news, and current events. The material for level 2 was dorived from VOA Learning English reports, also knows as Special English. These news reports draw on a core of 1,500 words, and give student sample opportunity to improve their listening comprehension.
Listening to the News Voice of America is a three-book series designed to improve listening comprehension skills for academic purposes while providing interesting topics related to culture, news, and current events.
Each of the twenty units contains an authentic news report from Voice of America, a multimedia broadcasting service funded by the US government. These reports highlight a wide variety of regional and global topics, which are grouped into four major themes: “American Life,” “General Interest,” “Science,” and “World Interest.”
This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it “big”, “new”, “rich”, and “free”.
