Soft Cover. Very Good. 1st Printing. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. ISBN:0-87833-615-X. Rear corners lightly bent, crease about 1" from lower rear corner. Call numbers on label on spine under clear reinforcing tape which runs along spine, library name stamps on fep and bottom page edges, library name label on fep, discard stamp on dedication page, bar code on rear cover. Foreword by Jim Lehrer. 191 pages.

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A Few Words A Cornucopia of Questions and Answers Concerning Language, Literature and Life

Publisher

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1988

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

087833615X

ISBN 13

9780878336159

Binding

Soft cover

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1st Edition

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1st Printing

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Answers questions about language, English, regional expressions, holidays, grammar, homonyms, synonyms, spelling, punctuation, and unusual expressions

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How many languages are spoken today? What is dyslexia? What language did King Richard the Lionhearted of England speak? Is there a linguistic definition of "huh," "uh-uh" and "uh-huh"? Why do babies worldwide address their mothers with a version of "mama"? The answers to these and many other questions are found in this amusing and informative handbook of language, literature and life compiled from 10 years' of the authors' columns in the Dallas Morning News . (There are from 3000 to 8000 languages in the world, they say, only 30 of which are spoken by more than a million people. There is one language, Alaskan Eyak, that is spoken by only two people.) The authors defend split infinitives and explain that the little plastic tip on a shoelace is called an aglet. We learn such diverse bits of information as the source of Robert Kennedy's quote "Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?' " (it was a paraphrase of the serpent's line from G. B. Shaw's Back to Methuselah ) and the fighting name of celebrated left-handed boxer Joseph L. Barrow (Joe Louis). Questions are posed by Sugar Ray Leonard, Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe, Lord Mayor of London and Sir Laurence Olivier as well as by regular folk.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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