Highly Irregular
Highly Irregular
Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme-And Other Oddities of the English Language
Okrent, Arika; O'Neill, Sean
Oxford University Press Inc
03/2024
272
Mole
Inglês
9780197760918
15 a 20 dias
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What the Hell, English?
The Colonel of Truth: What is the deal with the word colonel?
Fairweather Vowels: Why is y a sometimes vowel?
Hey Large Spender: Why do we order a large drink and not a big one?
Crazy English: Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
What the Hell is with What the Hell?
Blame the Barbarians
Thoroughly Tough, Right?: Why don't tough, through, and dough rhyme?
Getting and Giving the General Gist: Why are there two ways to say the letter g?
Egging them On: What is the egg doing in egg on?
I Ated All the Cookies: Why do we have irregular verbs?
It Goes by so Fastly: Why do we move slowly but not fastly? And step softly but not hardly?
Elegantly Clad and Stylishly Shod: Why is it clean-shaven and not clean-shaved?
Six of One, Half a Twoteen of the Other: Why is it eleven, twelve instead of oneteen, twoteen?
Woe is We: Why is it woe is me, not I am woe?
Blame the French
A Sizeable, Substantial, Extensive Vocabulary: Why are there so many synonyms?
Don't inSULT me with that INsult: Why are there noun-verb pairs that only differ by stress?
Without Fail: Why is it without fail and not failure or failing?
Ask the Poets Laureate: Why is it sum total and not total sum?
Of Unrequited Lof: Why isn't of spelled with a v?
Blame the Printing Press
Uninvited Ghuests: Why are ghost, ghastly, and ghoul spelled with a gh?
Gnat, Knot, Comb, Wrist: Why do we have silent consonants?
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Why is there a silent l?
Peek, Peak, Piece, People: Why are there so many ways to write the 'ee' sound?
Crew, Grew, Stew, New...Sew?: Why don't sew and new rhyme?
Blame the snobs
Get Receipts on those Extra Letters: Why is there a p in receipt, an l in salmon, and a b in doubt?
Asthma, Phelgm, and Diarrhea: Why all the extra letters?
The Data are in on the Octopi: What's the deal with Latin plurals?
Too Much Discretion: Keeping discreet and discrete discrete, discreetly
Pick a Color/Colour: Can't we get this standardized/standardised?
Blame ourselves
Couth, Kempt, and Ruthful: Why have some words lost their better halves?
If it Ain't Broke, Don't Scramble It: Why is There no egg in eggplant?
Proving the Rule: How can an exception prove a rule?
How Dare You Say How Try You!: Why dare isn't like the other verbs
Release the Meese: Why isn't the plural of moose meese?
Why do Noses Run and Feet Smell?: A corny joke with a serious answer
Negative Fixation: Why can you say "this won't take long" but not "this will take long"?
Abbreviation Deflation: Why is there an r in Mrs.?
How it Comes to Be: How come we say how come?
Phrasal Verbs, Let's Go Over Them: But don't try to "go them over." (You can look them over though)
Terrible and Terrific, Awful and Awesome: How does the same root get opposite meanings?
Literally Messed Up: How did literally get to mean figuratively?
That's Enough, Now, English
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
The Colonel of Truth: What is the deal with the word colonel?
Fairweather Vowels: Why is y a sometimes vowel?
Hey Large Spender: Why do we order a large drink and not a big one?
Crazy English: Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
What the Hell is with What the Hell?
Blame the Barbarians
Thoroughly Tough, Right?: Why don't tough, through, and dough rhyme?
Getting and Giving the General Gist: Why are there two ways to say the letter g?
Egging them On: What is the egg doing in egg on?
I Ated All the Cookies: Why do we have irregular verbs?
It Goes by so Fastly: Why do we move slowly but not fastly? And step softly but not hardly?
Elegantly Clad and Stylishly Shod: Why is it clean-shaven and not clean-shaved?
Six of One, Half a Twoteen of the Other: Why is it eleven, twelve instead of oneteen, twoteen?
Woe is We: Why is it woe is me, not I am woe?
Blame the French
A Sizeable, Substantial, Extensive Vocabulary: Why are there so many synonyms?
Don't inSULT me with that INsult: Why are there noun-verb pairs that only differ by stress?
Without Fail: Why is it without fail and not failure or failing?
Ask the Poets Laureate: Why is it sum total and not total sum?
Of Unrequited Lof: Why isn't of spelled with a v?
Blame the Printing Press
Uninvited Ghuests: Why are ghost, ghastly, and ghoul spelled with a gh?
Gnat, Knot, Comb, Wrist: Why do we have silent consonants?
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Why is there a silent l?
Peek, Peak, Piece, People: Why are there so many ways to write the 'ee' sound?
Crew, Grew, Stew, New...Sew?: Why don't sew and new rhyme?
Blame the snobs
Get Receipts on those Extra Letters: Why is there a p in receipt, an l in salmon, and a b in doubt?
Asthma, Phelgm, and Diarrhea: Why all the extra letters?
The Data are in on the Octopi: What's the deal with Latin plurals?
Too Much Discretion: Keeping discreet and discrete discrete, discreetly
Pick a Color/Colour: Can't we get this standardized/standardised?
Blame ourselves
Couth, Kempt, and Ruthful: Why have some words lost their better halves?
If it Ain't Broke, Don't Scramble It: Why is There no egg in eggplant?
Proving the Rule: How can an exception prove a rule?
How Dare You Say How Try You!: Why dare isn't like the other verbs
Release the Meese: Why isn't the plural of moose meese?
Why do Noses Run and Feet Smell?: A corny joke with a serious answer
Negative Fixation: Why can you say "this won't take long" but not "this will take long"?
Abbreviation Deflation: Why is there an r in Mrs.?
How it Comes to Be: How come we say how come?
Phrasal Verbs, Let's Go Over Them: But don't try to "go them over." (You can look them over though)
Terrible and Terrific, Awful and Awesome: How does the same root get opposite meanings?
Literally Messed Up: How did literally get to mean figuratively?
That's Enough, Now, English
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
What the Hell, English?
The Colonel of Truth: What is the deal with the word colonel?
Fairweather Vowels: Why is y a sometimes vowel?
Hey Large Spender: Why do we order a large drink and not a big one?
Crazy English: Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
What the Hell is with What the Hell?
Blame the Barbarians
Thoroughly Tough, Right?: Why don't tough, through, and dough rhyme?
Getting and Giving the General Gist: Why are there two ways to say the letter g?
Egging them On: What is the egg doing in egg on?
I Ated All the Cookies: Why do we have irregular verbs?
It Goes by so Fastly: Why do we move slowly but not fastly? And step softly but not hardly?
Elegantly Clad and Stylishly Shod: Why is it clean-shaven and not clean-shaved?
Six of One, Half a Twoteen of the Other: Why is it eleven, twelve instead of oneteen, twoteen?
Woe is We: Why is it woe is me, not I am woe?
Blame the French
A Sizeable, Substantial, Extensive Vocabulary: Why are there so many synonyms?
Don't inSULT me with that INsult: Why are there noun-verb pairs that only differ by stress?
Without Fail: Why is it without fail and not failure or failing?
Ask the Poets Laureate: Why is it sum total and not total sum?
Of Unrequited Lof: Why isn't of spelled with a v?
Blame the Printing Press
Uninvited Ghuests: Why are ghost, ghastly, and ghoul spelled with a gh?
Gnat, Knot, Comb, Wrist: Why do we have silent consonants?
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Why is there a silent l?
Peek, Peak, Piece, People: Why are there so many ways to write the 'ee' sound?
Crew, Grew, Stew, New...Sew?: Why don't sew and new rhyme?
Blame the snobs
Get Receipts on those Extra Letters: Why is there a p in receipt, an l in salmon, and a b in doubt?
Asthma, Phelgm, and Diarrhea: Why all the extra letters?
The Data are in on the Octopi: What's the deal with Latin plurals?
Too Much Discretion: Keeping discreet and discrete discrete, discreetly
Pick a Color/Colour: Can't we get this standardized/standardised?
Blame ourselves
Couth, Kempt, and Ruthful: Why have some words lost their better halves?
If it Ain't Broke, Don't Scramble It: Why is There no egg in eggplant?
Proving the Rule: How can an exception prove a rule?
How Dare You Say How Try You!: Why dare isn't like the other verbs
Release the Meese: Why isn't the plural of moose meese?
Why do Noses Run and Feet Smell?: A corny joke with a serious answer
Negative Fixation: Why can you say "this won't take long" but not "this will take long"?
Abbreviation Deflation: Why is there an r in Mrs.?
How it Comes to Be: How come we say how come?
Phrasal Verbs, Let's Go Over Them: But don't try to "go them over." (You can look them over though)
Terrible and Terrific, Awful and Awesome: How does the same root get opposite meanings?
Literally Messed Up: How did literally get to mean figuratively?
That's Enough, Now, English
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
The Colonel of Truth: What is the deal with the word colonel?
Fairweather Vowels: Why is y a sometimes vowel?
Hey Large Spender: Why do we order a large drink and not a big one?
Crazy English: Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
What the Hell is with What the Hell?
Blame the Barbarians
Thoroughly Tough, Right?: Why don't tough, through, and dough rhyme?
Getting and Giving the General Gist: Why are there two ways to say the letter g?
Egging them On: What is the egg doing in egg on?
I Ated All the Cookies: Why do we have irregular verbs?
It Goes by so Fastly: Why do we move slowly but not fastly? And step softly but not hardly?
Elegantly Clad and Stylishly Shod: Why is it clean-shaven and not clean-shaved?
Six of One, Half a Twoteen of the Other: Why is it eleven, twelve instead of oneteen, twoteen?
Woe is We: Why is it woe is me, not I am woe?
Blame the French
A Sizeable, Substantial, Extensive Vocabulary: Why are there so many synonyms?
Don't inSULT me with that INsult: Why are there noun-verb pairs that only differ by stress?
Without Fail: Why is it without fail and not failure or failing?
Ask the Poets Laureate: Why is it sum total and not total sum?
Of Unrequited Lof: Why isn't of spelled with a v?
Blame the Printing Press
Uninvited Ghuests: Why are ghost, ghastly, and ghoul spelled with a gh?
Gnat, Knot, Comb, Wrist: Why do we have silent consonants?
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Why is there a silent l?
Peek, Peak, Piece, People: Why are there so many ways to write the 'ee' sound?
Crew, Grew, Stew, New...Sew?: Why don't sew and new rhyme?
Blame the snobs
Get Receipts on those Extra Letters: Why is there a p in receipt, an l in salmon, and a b in doubt?
Asthma, Phelgm, and Diarrhea: Why all the extra letters?
The Data are in on the Octopi: What's the deal with Latin plurals?
Too Much Discretion: Keeping discreet and discrete discrete, discreetly
Pick a Color/Colour: Can't we get this standardized/standardised?
Blame ourselves
Couth, Kempt, and Ruthful: Why have some words lost their better halves?
If it Ain't Broke, Don't Scramble It: Why is There no egg in eggplant?
Proving the Rule: How can an exception prove a rule?
How Dare You Say How Try You!: Why dare isn't like the other verbs
Release the Meese: Why isn't the plural of moose meese?
Why do Noses Run and Feet Smell?: A corny joke with a serious answer
Negative Fixation: Why can you say "this won't take long" but not "this will take long"?
Abbreviation Deflation: Why is there an r in Mrs.?
How it Comes to Be: How come we say how come?
Phrasal Verbs, Let's Go Over Them: But don't try to "go them over." (You can look them over though)
Terrible and Terrific, Awful and Awesome: How does the same root get opposite meanings?
Literally Messed Up: How did literally get to mean figuratively?
That's Enough, Now, English
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
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