Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others who Care about WordsColumbia University Press, 1980 - 405페이지 Lists words and terms, useful to journalists and students of the English language, including etymology, usage, and interesting facts. |
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abbreviation ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE adjective adverb Alice ambiguity American Heritage usage Anglo-Saxon antecedent ANTONOMASIA APHESIS BACK FORMATION barbarism Barzun become Bernstein better British called clause cliché coined comes from Greek comes from Latin comma common confused conjunction connote context copy editor derive from Greek Dictionary double dropped DYSPHEMISM ecdysiast English words derive especially example Fowler French googol grammatical Greek head headline Headlines and Deadlines headlinese hence hyphen INTERROBANG jargon John language literally meaning Mencken misspelled newspaper Nickles Note the spelling noun nounal object one's originally past participle past tense percent person phrase plural political preposition pronoun pronunciation reader redundant refers reporter rhetorical root sense sentence SEQUENCE OF TENSES slang someone sometimes SONIC WRITING sound speaker speech SPLIT INFINITIVE story Straight Latin stress SYLLEPSIS sylleptic synonym term things tion uppercase usually whence word comes York