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Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you're an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have noticed that there are so...me things about this language that are just weird. Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules (Why are there so many ways to say '-gh'?), or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression (Why do we say How dare you but not How try you ?), or your kid quizzes you on homework (Why is it eleven and twelve instead of oneteen and twoteen ?). Suddenly you ask yourself, Wait, why do we do it this way? You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls. It doesn't conform to logic. It doesn't work the way you'd expect it to. There doesn't seem to be any rule at all. There might not be a logical explanation, but there will be an explanation, and this book is here to help. In Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent answers these questions and many more. Along the way she tells the story of the many influences--from invading French armies to stubborn Flemish printers--that made our language the way it is today. Both an entertaining send-up of linguistic oddities and a deeply researched history of English, Highly Irregular is essential reading for anyone who has paused to wonder about our marvelous mess of a language.
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Rocket, Nuri, and Screech find themselves in 1933 Paris where a rare and mysterious painting has been stolen, so the young adventures set out on the trail of the stolen artistic treasure and its secrets.
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Tells the inside story of convicted hate-mongerer Abu Hamza, his infamous Finsbury Park Mosque and how it turned out a generation of militants willing to die - and kill - for their cause.
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Dictionary of the Ponca People presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Until relatively recently, the Ponca language had been passed down solely as part of an oral tradition in which childr...en learned the language at home by listening to their elders. Almost every family on the southern Ponca reservation in Oklahoma spoke the language fluently until the 1940s, when English began to replace the Ponca language as children entered government boarding schools and were forced to learn English. In response to demand, Ponca language classes are now being offered to children and adults as people seek to gain knowledge of this important link to tradition and culture. The approximately five thousand words in this volume encompass the main artery of the language heard and spoken by the parents and grandparents of the Ponca Council of Elders. Additional words are included, such as those related to modern devices and technology. This dictionary has been compiled at a time when the southern Poncas are initiating a new syntactic structure to the language, as few can speak a full sentence. This dictionary is not intended to recover a cultural period or practice but rather as a reference to the spoken language of the people.
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Upon finding a note written in hieroglyphics, Rocket Robinson and his pet monkey team up with gypsy girl Nuri in 1933 Cairo to unscramble the code and locate an ancient pharaoh's fortune before thief Otto von Steurm can find it.
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Dictionary of the Ponca People presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present.
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Walks on the Ground is a record of Ponca elder Louis V. Headman's personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades.
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Please note that this title is Independently Published or self published and the quality of production may vary. We recommend you choose carefully. Preposterous, ruminations from the madhouse that will curl you hair, break your teeth and have you rolling in the aisles of the supe...rmarket. These excellent verses are for children and for adults who wish that they had never grown up!
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Vowel teams can make both long and complex vowel sounds. The special complex vowel teams can be spelled many different ways. They can be used to build common words we use everyday. Let's discover what these complex vowels can do.
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The Systems of the Body series has established itself as a highly valuable resource for medical and other health science students following today's systems-based courses. Now thoroughly revised and updated in this third edition, each volume presents the core knowledge of basic sc...ience and clinical conditions that medical students need, providing a concise, fully integrated view of each major body system that can be hard to find in more traditionally arranged textbooks or other resources. Multiple case studies help relate key principles to current practice, with links to clinical skills, clinical investigation and therapeutics made clear throughout. Each (print) volume also now comes with access to the complete, enhanced eBook version, offering easy anytime, anywhere access - as well as self-assessment material to check your understanding and aid exam preparation. The Musculoskeletal System provides highly accessible coverage of the core basic science principles in the context of clinical case histories, giving the reader a fully integrated understanding of the system and its major diseases. RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND THE HAND SOFT TISSUE RHEUMATIC DISEASE INVOLVING THE SHOULDER AND ELBOW NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES LOWER BACK PAIN BONE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN NORMAL AND DISEASE STATES THE SYNOVIAL JOINT IN HEALTH AND DISEASE: OSTEOARTHRITIS CRYSTAL ARTHROPATHIES AND THE ANKLE SKELETAL MUSCLE AND ITS DISORDERS AUTOIMMUNITY AND THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM TRAUMA AND THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM INFECTION AND THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM Systems of the Body Series: The Renal System The Musculoskeletal System The Nervous System The Digestive System The Endocrine System The Respiratory System The Cardiovascular System
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