Language & Communication

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Francis Grose

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, compiled by Francis Grose, is a reference work that catalogues the…

Synonyms and antonyms: An alphabetical list of words in common use, grouped with others of similar and opposite meaning

Edith B. Ordway

This work is a reference compendium that gathers English words in alphabetical order, pairing each entry with…

Conversation: What to say and how to say it

Mary Greer Conklin

Conversation : $b What to say and how to say it is a practical guide to the art of polite discourse, written…

A dictionary of English proverbs and proverbial phrases: With a Copious Index of Principal Words

This work is a reference volume that gathers English proverbs and proverbial phrases, arranging them by their…

English-Esperanto Dictionary

O'Connor, J. C. (John Charles); Hayes, C. F.

The work is a bilingual reference, the first English‑Esperanto dictionary compiled by J. C. O’Connor and C.

The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period

K. Rebillon Lambley

The work is a scholarly survey of how French was taught and used in England from the medieval period through…

Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400: Interpreted from representative works

Charles Sears Baldwin

Charles Sears Baldwin’s Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic to 1400 is a scholarly survey that treats the history of…

Delight and power in speech: A universal dramatic reader; A New, Complete and Practical Method of Securing Delight and Efficiency in Silent and Oral Reading and Private and Public Speech; together with a large and varied collection of carefully chosen selections in prose and poetry, with chapters on "The cultivation of the memory" and "After dinner speaking."

Nattkemper, Leonard G.; James, George Wharton

Delight and Power in Speech is a practical manual that treats the art of reading aloud and public speaking as…

Dictionnaire complet de l'argot employé dans les Mystères de Paris

Anonymous

Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings

Trench H. Johnson

Trench H. Johnson’s Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings is a reference work that sets out, in…

Latin Phrase-Book

Carl Meissner

Hoc volumine, quod a Carolo Meissneri Philosophia linguae Latinae consilio redactum est, invenitur praeclarum…

Orthography: as outlined in the state course of study for Illinois : Seventh and Eighth Years

Elmer W. Cavins

This work is a practical handbook designed for teachers and pupils following the Illinois State Course of…

Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis

Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield’s “Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis” is a linguistic study rather than a narrative…

Bisayan grammar and notes on Bisayan rhetoric and poetics and Filipino dialectology

Norberto Romuáldez

The book is an elementary grammar of the Bisayan dialect spoken on Samar and the western half of Leyte,…

A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology

Richard Soule

This work is a practical reference guide that gathers English synonyms and near‑synonyms in alphabetical…

Argot and slang: a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris

Albert Barrère

Albert Barrère’s work is a bilingual reference that gathers, without alteration, the myriad cant words, slang…

De Nederlandsche Geslachtsnamen in Oorsprong, Geschiedenis en Beteekenis

Johan Winkler

Dit werk is een systematische studie van Nederlandse en Friese achternamen, waarin Johan Winkler zowel de…

Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios

Wilkins, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Augustus); Luria, Max Aaron

Este libro es una antología didáctica concebida por Lawrence A. Wilkins y Max A.

Tibetan Grammar

H. A. Jäschke

The work is a scholarly grammar of the Tibetan language, originally compiled by H. A.

A Hausa botanical vocabulary

J. M. Dalziel

A Hausa botanical vocabulary is a specialist reference work compiled by the botanist J. M.

English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them.

Anonymous

English as She is Wrote is a whimsical anthology that gathers together a kaleidoscope of mis‑spelled notices,…

The Civilization of Illiteracy

Mihai Nadin

The work is a sociolinguistic and cultural study that interrogates the decline of conventional literacy in…

Hobson-Jobson A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive

Yule, Henry, Sir; Burnell, A. C.

Hobson‑Jobson is a scholarly glossary that records the Anglo‑Indian vocabulary that grew up as English…

Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Seemannssprache

Gustav Goedel

Das Werk ist ein etymologisches Wörterbuch, das sich ausschließlich mit der Terminologie der deutschen…