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On the Dot

The Speck That Changed the World

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez

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On the Dot

The Speck That Changed the World

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez

Introduction: The Tiniest Sign. Time and Chance: Punctuality and the Coin Toss. Dit Dah: Codes to Sigh For. With a Bullet: Checklists and Dingbats. And a Half: Musical Dots. For Short: Mr., Sr., et al. Dot Dot Dot: Ellipses, Lacunae, and Missing Links. Stet: Emendations of Immortality. Ninety-Eight Point Six: Decimals and Determinings. Dot Com: Computation Punctuation. Bang!: The Dot Meets The Family. Period: The End Point. Afterword and Acknowledgements. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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OUP USA

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0195324994

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Short Cuts

A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez,Rob Flynn

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A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez,Rob Flynn

Our everyday lives are inevitably touched--and immeasurably enriched--by an extraordinary variety of miniature forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, and from yesterday's graffito to tomorrow's headline. Celebrating our long history of compact speech, Short Cuts offers a well-researched and vibrantly written account of this unsung corner of the linguistic world, inspiring a new appreciation of the wondrously varied forms of our briefest exchanges. Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez, and Rob Flynn shed light here on an ever-growing field of minimalist genres, ranging from the bank robbery note to the billboard, from the curse hurled from a car window (or the Senate floor) to the suicide note, and from the ghost-word to the ring tone. The book is divided into ten thematic sections, as varied as "In the Dictionary" (discussing such topics as Sniglets, Mountweazels, and the Wiktionary), "In and Out of Trouble" (error messages, weasel words, the pre-nup), and "On the Lam" (ransom notes, wanted posters, portraits parlés). The authors look at the comic strip's maladicta balloon and the dinner-interrupter's robocalls, the advice column and the obit, and the many ways your personal appearance tells us who you are, from the message on your gimme cap to the tattoo with your S.O.'s name on your ankle. Uncovering the elegance, the humor, and the unspoken implications in these fleeting communications, this book provides a satisfying thoroughness and an abundance of connections that unravel how the oath became the swearword and the calling card salver turned into the Facebook wall. For readers who love language and enjoy rummaging through the cultural baggage that comes with it, Short Cuts gathers an engaging sampler of the most delightful and cogent--and above all brief--forms of contemporary English.

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Oxford University Press

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0199758689

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9780199758685

On the Dot

The Speck That Changed the World

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez

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The Speck That Changed the World

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Foundation Documents from St Mary's Abbey, York, 1085-1137

By: Janet Burton,Michael Gullick,Nicholas Karn

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Foundation Documents from St Mary's Abbey, York, 1085-1137

By: Janet Burton,Michael Gullick,Nicholas Karn

In the wake of the Conqueror's ravaging of the North in the course of the rebellion and Danish invasion of 1069-70 the devastated city of York had to be largely rebuilt. The Conqueror himself contributed a major new abbey built in the west of the city, no doubt in a spirit of penitence for the wasting of the city and county carried out by his troops. The community's origins were not straightforward. Around 1085 the community was adopted by the king and translated to the western quarter of York, to a site which had previously been the 'burh' of the earl of Northumbria. The Conqueror made a creative use of the new Norman elite of Yorkshire to endow and secure the new abbey, an enterprise adopted and extended by his son William II Rufus in 1088. This study uncovers in meticulous detail the manoeuvres of the king, the abbot and the aristocracy of Yorkshire as each looked to make spiritual and political capital out of the grand new royal foundation.

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508

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Boydell Press

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0854440844

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9780854440849

Latin for People / Latina Pro Populo

By: Paul Alexander Humez

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Latin for People / Latina Pro Populo

By: Paul Alexander Humez

Alexander and Nicholas Humez have fashioned an easy-going and satisfying introduction to the language that is the wellspring of the mother tongue. Their brief history of Classical and Vulgar Latin, explanation of the language's grammatical and sound systems, translation exercises, synopsis of grammar, and glossaries of Latin-English and English-Latin will enhance our understanding of every aspect of literature and the world of ideas. In addition, Latin for People contains two closing chapters, hailed as 'invaluable' by The Classical Outlook: one that translates all the readings in the book and one that suggests further readings.

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Back Bay Books

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0316381497

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9780316381499

Short Cuts

A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez,Rob Flynn

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A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez,Rob Flynn

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Oxford University Press

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0199750750

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9780199750757

A B C Et Cetera

The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas D. Humez

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The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas D. Humez

This is a book about the Roman alphabet and the people who used it as a medium for the transmission of their civilization. Primarily, this means the Romans and their Italic subjects, speakers of Latin who disseminated the language, and the culture of which it was an expression, throughout Europe and the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. As speakers, readers, and writers of English, we are greatly indebted to the long line of purveyors of Latin in its various forms. When words are borrowed, concepts come with them. So, if we have borrowed a wide variety of Latin words, it follows that we have also borrowed a great deal of the cultural stuff that they encase. This book takes a look at what the authors consider to be some of the more intriguing cultural/linguistic goodies that have crept willy-nilly into the English language over the ages from the Latin cornucopia. - Preamble.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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1567921000

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9781567921007

Zero to Lazy Eight

The Romance Numbers

By: Alexander Humez

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Zero to Lazy Eight

The Romance Numbers

By: Alexander Humez

Did you ever wonder why a stitch in time saves nine and not, say, four, or why the number seven is considered the luckiest, or what number the word googol refers to? Well, the Humez brothers, along with Joseph Maguire, have answered all of these questions and more. In "Zero to Lazy Eight," they take us on a wacky and enlightening trip up the linguistic number scale from zero to thirteen and back by way of infinity, showing us just what numbers can tell us about our culture's past, present, and future. Whether it be numerical maxims, mathematical theory, or numeric etymology, there is something here for everyone.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671742817

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9780671742812

Alpha to Omega

The Life & Times of the Greek Alphabet

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez

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Alpha to Omega

The Life & Times of the Greek Alphabet

By: Alexander Humez,Nicholas Humez

Contains twenty-four essays, each of which examines one letter of the Greek alphabet, looking at English words that come from Greek words beginning with the letter under discussion, and exploring the aspects of Greek culture behind the borrowed words. Includes an examination of letters that were discarded from the Greek alphabet.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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087923461X

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9780879234614

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Foundation Documents from St Mary's Abbey, York, 1085-1137

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