The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...

If you were an adjective, you could be spectacular, brilliant, dazzling, or daring. You could describe how something feels, sounds or behaves.

What makes a place so memorable that it survives forever in a word? In this captivating round-the-world tour, Paul Anthony Jones is your guide through the intriguing stories of how eighty places became immortalized in the English language. You'll discover why the origins of turkeys, limericks, Brazil nuts, and Panama hats aren't quite as straightforward as you might presume. If you've never heard of the tiny Czech mining town of Ja'chymov-or Joachimsthal,...

Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly...

This book contains "hundreds of words arranged alphabetically, with their derivationa, and the circumstances that brought them into our language.

Focuses on common word families for beginning readers featuring a picture glossary, rebus sentences, word family words, and a story section. The First Rhymes series focuses on common word families for beginning readers. Each book starts with a picture glossary illustrating five words from the featured word family. The next section has a rebus sentence using one of the five word family words and its picture clue from the glossary. The third section...

Focuses on common word families for beginning readers featuring a picture glossary, rebus sentences, word family words, and a story section.

Focuses on common word families for beginning readers featuring a picture glossary, rebus sentences, word family words, and a story section.

Focuses on common word families for beginning readers featuring a picture glossary, rebus sentences, word family words, and a story section. The First Rhymes series focuses on common word families for beginning readers. Each book starts with a picture glossary illustrating five words from the featured word family. The next section has a rebus sentence using one of the five word family words and its picture clue from the glossary. The third section...

Books in the Hide and Seek series provide an entertaining introduction to some of the words that tell us where things are. This book looks at "On" and "Under", and features an animal character called Eddie the Elephant who is playing hide-and-seek. On each spread, Eddie is hiding using one of the two opposite words featured in the book's title, and the reader is asked to find him. The fun, cartoon-like design combined with the interactive "hide-and-seek"...