Vocabula Bound: Essays on the English Language from the Vocabula ReviewRobert Hartwell Fiske Marion Street Press, Inc., 2004 - 304 sidor A collection of twenty-five essays ranging in topic from the importance of teaching poetry to the 'secret nature' of nicknames, as well as twenty-six poems. |
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Part the First Outbursts | 12 |
Children Deserve Poetry | 20 |
Why Teachers Cant Read Poetry | 31 |
The Ribbon | 42 |
LArt Poetique | 48 |
The Art of Conversation | 55 |
Upsizing | 61 |
Playing the Synonym Game | 67 |
Obscene Words | 133 |
Who Owns English | 191 |
Singular They The Pronoun That Came | 210 |
A Little Poem | 229 |
Temptation of St Anthony Detail of Demons | 235 |
The Secret Nature of Nicknames | 244 |
Politicians Incorrect | 253 |
The Pen Is Mightier Than MSWord | 260 |
Tongue | 76 |
Marmara | 79 |
Why Linguists Are Not to Be Trusted | 89 |
Getting the Words Right | 119 |
Words of a Feather | 125 |
Mr Goldentongue | 266 |
Takes on Shakes | 274 |
New York | 280 |
Credits | 294 |
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Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities : Essays ... Robert Hartwell Fiske Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2008 |
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