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BOOK EXCERPT:
A concise but comprehensive collection of famous Scottish quotes.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Reference |
Author |
: Betty Kirkpatrick |
Publisher |
: Crombie Jardine Publishing |
Release |
: 2006-10-01 |
File |
: 160 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781848398047 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
A concise but comprehensive collection of Scottish words and phrases.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Betty Kirkpatrick |
Publisher |
: Crombie Jardine Publishing |
Release |
: 2006-10-01 |
File |
: 160 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781848398054 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
This concise edition of the definitive 3-volume Dictionary of European Proverbs constitutes a fascinating collection of proverbs in 29 languages. The entries are arranged alphabetically according to the English equivalent, allowing the reader to identify common trends easily and quickly. * All proverbs listed in original language * 29 European languages featured * Includes all proverbs in current use * Thoroughly checked by language specialists to ensure accuracy. The Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs is based on over 40 years in-depth research by the compiler. It is an essential reference source for linguists, ethnologists and folklorists, and of interest to anyone wanting to know about the origins, development and current usage of the proverb. Emanuel Straussis a world-renowned expert on proverbs.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Foreign Language Study |
Author |
: Emanuel Strauss |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2013-01-11 |
File |
: 2137 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781136789786 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
A concise but comprehensive collection of famous Scottish quotes.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Scotland |
Author |
: Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2006 |
File |
: 158 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 143370207X |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
Based on the highly acclaimed seventh edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this new edition includes over 9,000 of the most popular and widely-used quotations old and new, uniquely identified by searching the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, the Oxford English Corpus.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Reference |
Author |
: Susan Ratcliffe |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Release |
: 2011-03-17 |
File |
: 594 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199567072 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
A concise but comprehensive collection of Scottish words and phrases.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Betty Kirkpatrick |
Publisher |
: Crombie Jardine Publishing |
Release |
: 2006-10-01 |
File |
: 165 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781848393608 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.
Product Details :
Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Peter Burke |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 1987-10-22 |
File |
: 236 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521317630 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. It is the result of a lifetime of work on dialect and metaphor and gives an overview of the folk wisdom expressed in figurative expressions. The author draws on his extensive contact with the rural cultures of Dorset, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire, but has also included a range of sayings from North America, Australia, Scotland and other English speaking countries. With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse long after your original query has been answered.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Foreign Language Study |
Author |
: Dick Wilkinson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2013-01-11 |
File |
: 386 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781134085293 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. It is the result of a lifetime of work on dialect and metaphor and gives an overview of the folk wisdom expressed in figurative expressions. The author draws on his extensive contact with the rural cultures of Dorset, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire, but has also included a range of sayings from North America, Australia, Scotland and other English speaking countries. With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse long after your original query has been answered.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Foreign Language Study |
Author |
: Peter Richard Wilkinson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2008 |
File |
: 386 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415430845 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in the English language, and together they give an impressive overview of the fascinating advances in the field of paremiology.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Wolfgang Mieder |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2015-02-11 |
File |
: 464 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781317549239 |