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Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict where you grew up? How do you pronounce "pecan"? What do you call a long sandwich with a variety of meats and cheeses? Do you cut the grass or mow the lawn? The answers to these questions and the distinctions they reveal about who says what and where they say it, are not just the ultimate in cocktail party fodder, they are also windows into the history of our nation, regions,...
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"With more than 4,000 entries, this updated edition of First Children's Dictionary is an ideal reference book for children five and older. Designed with age-appropriate text and highly visual pages featuring more than 800 images. Definitions are written in full sentences, helping children learn how to write correctly, and example sentences illustrate use and meaning. Opposites are included, themed feature pages highlight related words, and spelling...
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Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. In Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing, Tammet goes back in time to London to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood; in Iceland, he learns why the...
75) Duck! Rabbit!
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From the award-winning author of Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink comes a clever take on the age-old optical illusion: Is it a duck or a rabbit? Depends on how you look at it! Readers will find more than just Amy Krouse Rosenthal's signature humor here, there's also a subtle lesson for kids who don't know when to let go of an argument. A smart, simple story that will make readers of all ages eager to take a side, Duck! Rabbit! makes it easy...
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"Delightful." -Mary Norris, The New Yorker
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world's most polarizing punctuation mark
The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?
In Semicolon, Cecelia Watson charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark,...