Words: For Robert Burchfield's Sixty-fifth BirthdayEric Gerald Stanley, Fellow and Tutor in English Language T F Hoad, T. F. Hoad Boydell & Brewer, 1988 - 198 pages Essays concentrating on the uses and histories of English words, mainly in the modern period. Contributions vary in focus including work on the development on individual words, lexicography, British and overseas English dialects, and usage in the earlier and later Modern English period. |
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the First HalfCentury | 91 |
Devy or Deny? | 121 |
The New Vocabulary of English | 143 |
Words from A Supplement to Dr Harriss Dictionary | 163 |
Provenance and Persistence of Standard and Literary Forms | 185 |
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Page 69 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 160 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Page 10 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 45 - Archedukes, that lyveyth onely by the Swerde, and obeyeth to no other temperall Person, but onely to himself that is stronge: and every of the said Capytaynes makeyth Warre and Peace for hymself, and holdeith by Swerde, and hathe imperial! Jurysdyction within his Rome [realm], and obeyeth to noo other Person, Englyshe ne Iryshe, except only to suche Persones, as may subdue hym by the Swerde...
Page 92 - In 1920 and 1921 he served as chairman of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Council, and at various times participated in numerous committees of both the NRC and the Social Science Research Council.
Page 45 - Irishe Enymyes: some Region as bygge as a Shyre, some more, some lesse, unto a Lytyll; some as bygge as Halffe a Shyre, and some a Lytyll lesse; where reygneith more then 60 Chyef...
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Words: For Robert Burchfield's Sixty-fifth Birthday |
| Rédacteurs | Eric Gerald Stanley, Fellow and Tutor in English Language T F Hoad, T. F. Hoad |
| Collaborateur | R. W. Burchfield |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Boydell & Brewer, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0859912590, 9780859912594 |
| Longueur | 198 pages |
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