| Description |
246 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.3 4.0 130573. |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection |
| Note |
Previously published under title: The word spy, 2008. |
| Contents |
How it all began: First alphabet -- English alphabet -- Let's change the alphabet -- Invent your own alphabet -- Shorthand -- Why is English so strange?: Silent letters -- Invention of printing -- American spelling -- Plurals -- Hooray for Anglo-Saxon! -- Shakespeare and the bible -- Dots and dashes, interrobangs and cat's claws: Punctuation -- Punctuation: signs & symbols -- Comma, colon: period. -- Question mark -- Exclamation mark -- Interrobang -- Quotation marks -- Apostrophe -- Punctuation in other languages -- Punctuation: do we need it? -- Letters, letters, letters: Anagrams -- Pangrams -- Lipograms -- Acronyms -- LLL (Latin, Latin, Latin) -- Well-mannered acronyms -- Dot dot dot -- And finally the backronym... -- Is that another Greek word?: Palindromes -- Mnemonics -- Oxymorons -- Who likes playing games?: Pig Latin -- Rebus -- Rhyming slang -- Say that again!: Puns -- Homophones -- Mondegreens -- Onomatopoeia -- Tongue twisters -- Portmanteau words -- Hmm, I wonder that you're really saying...: Euphemisms -- Don't mention it -- Doublespeak -- Cliches -- Tautology -- Is that a real person?: Nicknames -- Eponyms -- Spoonerisms -- Tom Swifties -- Malapropisms -- Pen names -- Back to the future: Telegramese -- Texting, LOL, Leet and more -- Smileys. |
| Summary |
A tour of the English language from the beginning of the alphabet in 4000 BC to modern text messaging and emoticons. |
| Audience |
Lexile: 990. |
| Subject |
English language -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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English language -- History.
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| Added Author |
Riddle, Tohby, illustrator.
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Dubosarsky, Ursula, 1961-
Word spy.
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| Added Title |
Word spy
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| ISBN |
9780803734067 hardcover |
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0803734069 hardcover |
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