Confessions of a verbivore--A celebration of English. Our abounding English language; Doing a number on English ; A guide to Britspeak, A to Zed --This American language. A declaration of language independence ; Talking turkey ; All-American dialects ; Slang as it is slung ; A circus of words ; Words from oure presidents ; Stamp out fadspeak! ; Like, what's happening to our language? -- The glamour of grammar. Conan the grammarian ; Laying down the law--without lying down on the job; Sex and the singular pronoun ; An open letter to Ann Landers--Spellbound. Under a spell ; I before E, except?..;Fairly familiar phrases--Getting the word out. Writing is ... ; How I write; Plane talk; Radio days; English with a Russian dressing--The collide-o-scope of language. How wise is proverbial wisdom? ; Words that never stray ; Heads without tails ; Our uppity English language ; On palindromes ; The long and the short of English--The romance of words. Toothsome etymologies ; Haunted words ; My kids the poker players ; On paradox ; A primer of political words; The true meaning of Christmas ; Literature lives!--It's a punderful life. Jest for the pun of it ; Pun your way to success ; Nothing works for me ; A bilingual pun is twice the fun ; My favorite monsters.

Genet...Beckett...Burroughs...Miller...Ionesco, Oe, Duras. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Hubert Selby Jr. and John Rechy. The legendary film I Am Curious (Yellow) . The books that assaulted the fort of propriety that was the United States in the 1950s and '60s, Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Tropic of Cancer. The Evergreen Review. Victorian "erotica." The Autobiography of Malcolm X . A bombing, a sit-in, and a near-fistfight with Norman Mailer. The common thread between these disparate elements, a number of which reshaped modern culture, was Barney Rosset. Rosset was the antidote to the trope of the "gentleman publisher" personified by other pioneering figures of the industry such as Alfred A. Knopf, Bennett Cerf and James Laughlin. If Barney saw a crowd heading one way--he looked the other. If he knew something was forbidden, he regarded it as a plus. Unsurprisingly, financial ruin, along with the highs and lows of critical reception, marked his career. But his unswerving dedication to publishing what he wanted made him one of the most influential publishers ever. Rosset began work on his autobiography a decade before his death in 2012, and several publishers and a number of editors worked with him on the project. Now, at last, in his own words, we have a portrait of the man who reshaped how we think about language, literature--and sex. Here are the stories behind the filming of Norman Mailer's Maidstone and Samuel Beckett's Film ; the battles with the US government over Tropic of Cancer and much else; the search for Che's diaries; his romance with the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and more. At times appalling, more often inspiring, never boring or conventional: this is Barney Rosset, uncensored. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs; includes index

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

An Exaltation of Romance and Revelry

"The love and peace poems by international poet Ada Aharoni, are among the best in modern literature." (Saul Bellow, Nobel Laureate in Literature) "Rare Flower" by Ada Aharoni is a collection of moving, powerful and well-crafted poems, which has been compared to Jubran Khalil's "The Prophet." In brilliant poem after poem, Ada unfolds before our eyes new depths of human relations, the complexities and intricacies of love, and the joys and pains of life. Several of her poems have been put to music in a delightful manner. Influenced by the British Peace Poet, Wilfred Owen, whom she greatly admires, she powerfully denounces the whole concept and practice of War. As a woman and a mother, she condemns the killing of soldier-sons by involving them in war situations, and she clearly demonstrates that in our nuclear age, the continuation of the practice of war can dangerously lead to the end of humanity. Her beautiful, hopeful poems shed light and a deep comprehension of the possibilities of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and the creation of "A Global Village Beyond War."

Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae Dictionarul Limbei Istorice si Poporane De B. Petriceicu-Hasdeu Pre-cuvintare Aveam in cuget de a da in fruntea tomului IV al Etimologicului o introducere de vreo trei-patru cole de tipar dupe mustra tomurilor trecute. O intelegere luata in sinul Academiei Romane, in sedintele din 27 si 29 martie 1897, pune capat lucrarii mele ingaduindu mi urmarea numai pina la anul 1898. Fata cu acesta urmare, adeca curmare din partea doctului corp, de vreme ce nu voiu mai pasi iainte, m'am hotarit de a ma executa pe mine insumi print un nec-plus-ultra dupa mesura mijlocelor mele. Iata de ce "Negru voda" este asa cum este. Este o datoria a mea de inima si de minte de a rosti aci o adanca, o nemarginita, o adeverata recunoscinta Maicslalii Salc Regelui, care singur m'a indemnat la munca si mi-a inlesnit'o astfel ca Intemeiatorului Regatului Romanilor i se inchina studiul meu despre Intemeiatorii Statului Terei-Romanesci. Si ispravind, mandur de cate am facut, facand ceea ce am voit eu a face, las Etimologicului un maret vesnic adio, mangaindu-me cu vorba Stapanului meu: "sint multe lacase." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices. This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making. We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.