Ann E. Weiss | Autore | LibraryThing

Opere di Ann E. Weiss

Easy Credit (2000) 3 copie

Tune In, Tune Out: Broadcasting Regulation in the United States (1981) 2 copie

The American Congress (1977) 2 copie

News or not? : Facts and feelings in the news media (1977) 2 copie

Polls and Surveys: A Look at Public Opinion Research (An Impact Book) (1979) 2 copie

Prisons: A System in Trouble (Issues in Focus) (1988) 2 copie

Party politics, party problems (1980) 2 copie

Welfare: Helping Hand or Trap? (Issues in Focus) (1990) 1 copia

Adoptions today : questions and controversies (2001) 1 copia

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Etichette

333.97 (1) Arnosky J (1) Bioetica (2) church and state (1) Congresso degli Stati Uniti d'America (1) derivations (1) Emittente radiofonica (1) giveaway (1) governo statunitense (1) Inglese (2) JT2 (1) Latin America--Foreign relations--United States--Juvenile literature (1) Libertà religiosa (1) libri illustrati (1) libro illustrato (1) libro per bambini (1) Linguaggio (2) Media (2) Misc-Bx6 (1) NFA 2 (1) parole (1) per ragazzi (2) Politica (2) politica e governo (1) political problems (1) Privacy (1) Religione (4) Religione & Spiritualità (1) Saggistica (5) scatola 2 (1) SJ3 (1) Sociologia (2) Storia (4) storia della chiesa (1) tolleranza (1) truthfulness (1) Verità (1) word origins (2) YA (1) YA* (1)

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Data di nascita: 1943
Sesso: female

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What's That You Said?: How Words Change (Let Me Read… di Ann E. Weiss

Origins of many words in quite interesting, but I wasn't as thrilled with the structure as I was supposed to be: A quoted sentence includes a word that would have been used a long time ago, followed by some equivalent of "What's that you said?" followed by what we say nowadays. All that is on the left side of each two-page spread. The right side explains how the word evolved into the way we use it now.

For example: "Open your beech trees to page twenty-one" becomes "Open your books to page twenty-one." Then an explanation about bark being used for books, . . . .… (altro)

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raizel | Jul 5, 2013 |

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