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Building a Better Vocabulary
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Building a Better VocabularyBuilding a Better Vocabulary

What does the word bombast have to do with cushion stuffing? What is the difference between specious and spurious? Would you want someone to call you a snollygoster?
Building a Better Vocabulary,taught by Professor Kevin Flanigan of West Chester University of Pennsylvania, offers an intriguing look at the nuts and bolts of English, teaches you the etymology (history) and morphology (structure) of words, and delves into the cognitive science behind committing new words to long-term memory.
 
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Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
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Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for EveryoneWritten in a funny, charming, and conversational style, Word Origins is the first book to offer a thorough investigation of the history and the science of etymology, making this little-known field accessible to everyone interested in the history of words.
Partly a history, partly a how-to, and completely entertaining, Word Origins invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.
 
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Lexicology
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LexicologyСунцова Н. Л., Такумбетова Л. М. Лексикология английского языка.
This book is intended as a manual for English language students taking the course of English Lexicology along with other linguistic subjects which form part of the curriculum at Foreign Langilagcs departments of colleges and universities. Post-graduates, teachers of English and all those interested in the subject can also make use of it.

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Tags: lexicology, phraseology, semasiology, word-formation, etymology, manual, English, students, certain, theory, Lexicology, universities, colleges, Langilagcs, Post-graduates, departments, Foreign
An Amerind Etymological Dictionary
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An Amerind Etymological DictionaryAn Amerind Etymological Dictionary

This volume presents the lexical and grammatical evidence that defines the Amerind linguistic family. The evidence is presented in terms of 913 etymologies, arranged alphabetically according to the English gloss. Each etymology begins with the English gloss followed by a hypothetical phonetic form from which the individual Amerind forms are presumed to have derived. Within the body of each etymology the evidence is arrayed in terms of the thirteen branches of Amerind in a roughly north to south (or sometimes west to east) order: Almosan, Keresiouan, Penutian, Hokan, Central Amerind, Chibchan, Paezan, Andean, Equatorial, Macro-Tucanoan, Macro-Carib, Macro-Panoan, Macro-Ge.
 
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A Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word List
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A Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word LisA Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word Lis

Distinguished linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman set out the frame for this volume in An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology. Here, Liberman's landmark scholarship lay the groundwork for his forthcoming multivolume analytic dictionary of the English language.
 
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Tags: English, Liberman, Etymology, multivolume, forthcoming, Bibliography, Sources