Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others who Care about WordsLists words and terms, useful to journalists and students of the English language, including etymology, usage, and interesting facts. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 56 |
Section 3 | 82 |
Section 4 | 122 |
Section 5 | 140 |
Section 6 | 158 |
Section 7 | 172 |
Section 8 | 182 |
Section 13 | 256 |
Section 14 | 266 |
Section 15 | 275 |
Section 16 | 313 |
Section 17 | 323 |
Section 18 | 363 |
Section 19 | 379 |
Section 20 | 392 |
Section 9 | 213 |
Section 10 | 218 |
Section 11 | 222 |
Section 12 | 234 |
Section 21 | 403 |
Section 22 | 404 |
Section 23 | |
Other editions - View all
Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others who Care about Words John B. Bremner Limited preview - 1980 |
Words on Words: A Dictionary for Writers and Others who Care about Words John B. Bremner No preview available - 1980 |
Common terms and phrases
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