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Pages: 118
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-04 - Publisher: DigiCat

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Burgess Unabridged: A new dictionary of words you have always needed" by Gelett Burgess. DigiCat Pub
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A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, s
Predicting New Words
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Allan A. Metcalf
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Examines the phenomenon of new word creation, offering criteria for predicting the success of new words and including the American Dialect Society's listing of
The Hidden History of Coined Words
Language: en
Pages: 320
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Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and whe