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An innovative guide that shows how words work and how to make them work for you!Read, write, and speak more clearly and confidently with this compact, concise, all-in-one vocabulary-building guide. In school and in business, in public speaking and in private conversation, knowing just the right words to use can make a world of difference. Now, here's a book that puts a world of word power right at your fingertips. It includes: Chapters on word roots, the history of interesting words, and up-to-date vocabulary A thorough pronunciation guide with an extensive list of words that are often mispronounced
Delve into the intriguing world of word histories with fascinating stories about our living, growing language. Discover the origins of more than 1,500 words and enjoy over 600 engaging articles. Explore the stories behind our vocabulary.
From Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one —in the words of Laurence Houseman, author of the classic Rocking Horse Land—“is an expression of the joy of living.”
More than a million words, weird spellings, words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently or vice versa. Where on Earth did the English language come from? The answer is that English isn’t just the speech of one nation. It’s the memory of thousands of years of history. It tracks the places people came from, the places they went, the adventures they had, the friends and enemies they made, the battles they won and lost.
