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Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.
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Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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American Heritage (magazine)
American Heritage is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States of America for a mainstream readership.
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Anne Curzan
Anne Curzan is a professor at the University of Michigan, author of books on language, member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and co-host of That's What They Say on Michigan Public Radio.
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Brown Corpus
The Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English (or just Brown Corpus) was compiled in the 1960s by Henry Kučera and W. Nelson Francis at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island as a general corpus (text collection) in the field of corpus linguistics.
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Brown University
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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Calvert Watkins
Calvert Watkins (March 13, 1933 – March 20, 2013) was an American linguist and philologist.
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CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data.
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Corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is the study of language as expressed in corpora (bodies) of "real world" text.
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David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing.
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David Sedaris
David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor.
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Dictionary
A dictionary, sometimes known as a wordbook, is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.
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Etymology
EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".
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Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.
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Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet.
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Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
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Henry Kučera
Henry Kučera (15 February 1925 – 20 February 2010), born Jindřich Kučera, was a Czech-American linguist who pioneered corpus linguistics, linguistic software, was a major contributor to the American Heritage Dictionary, and a pioneer in the development of spell checking computer software.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.
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Idiom
An idiom (idiom, "special property", from translite, "special feature, special phrasing, a peculiarity", f. translit, "one's own") is a phrase or an expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning.
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Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family of several hundred related languages and dialects.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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Language for specific purposes dictionary
A language for specific purposes dictionary is a reference work which defines the specialised vocabulary used by experts within a particular field, for example, architecture.
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Liane Hansen
Liane Hansen (born September 29, 1951, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American journalist and radio personality who was senior host of the National Public Radio newsmagazine Weekend Edition Sunday until her retirement in May 2011.
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Linguistic prescription
Linguistic prescription, or prescriptive grammar, is the attempt to lay down rules defining correct use of language.
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Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.
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Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet.
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Merriam-Webster
Merriam–Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books which is especially known for its dictionaries.
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Phonetic notation of the American Heritage Dictionary
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (abbreviated AHD) uses a phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet to transcribe the pronunciation of spoken English.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, the most widely spoken language family in the world.
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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.
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Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.
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Robert J. Samuelson
Robert Jacob Samuelson (born December 23, 1945) is a journalist for The Washington Post, where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977.
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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator.
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Root
In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil.
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Semitic languages
The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family originating in the Middle East.
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Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.
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Style guide
A style guide (or manual of style) is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization, or field.
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Susan Stamberg
Susan Stamberg (born September 7, 1938) is an American radio journalist who is a Special Correspondent for National Public Radio and guest host of Weekend Edition Saturday.
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Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1938) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.
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The Sense of Style
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century is a 2014 English style guide written by cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author Steven Pinker.
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Thesaurus
In general usage, a thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which provides definitions for words, and generally lists them in alphabetical order.
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (commonly known as Webster's Third, or W3) was published in September 1961.
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William F. Buckley Jr.
William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator.
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