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  • Paul D. Hugon
  • The Modern Word Finder 
     

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    Lieferstatus:   i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
    Veröffentlichung:  März 2007  
    Genre:  Sprache 
    ISBN:  9781406738490 
    EAN-Code: 
    9781406738490 
    Verlag:  Ramage Press 
    Einband:  Kartoniert  
    Sprache:  English  
    Dimensionen:  H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 25 mm 
    Gewicht:  606 gr 
    Seiten:  432 
    Zus. Info:  Paperback 
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    THE M VO R D - K I N Originally published uncler the title MORROWS JL XJEVTNG GTTIOE TO IVtOUERN TJSAGE, SIBIJL, I1 3-G, GRAI I IAR, VOItrk ORIOIISTS, X3ST PAUL D. HUGON E ITIOJf GROSSET PUBLISHERS NE V YORKT COPYRIGHT, 1927, 1034, BT WlULIAM MORBOW AND COMPANT, THE WORD-FINiDER W ECAT IT IS ANT HOW TO TJSE IT TELE Word-Finder is the direct outcome of tabulations show ing the mistakes most commonly made, and the questions most commonly asked, by more than ten thousand adult students from every walk of life who were taking correspondence courses in various subjects. Of that number, some two thousand expressed in almost identical terms their greatest difficulty as finding the right word. It was shown that the dictionary was of little help, because the average person does not know how 7 to use it the type is usually much too small the presentation is too mechanical over-complete in some respects and woefully inadequate in mat ters of phrasing and usage there are too many abbreviations and not enough examples there is nothing to indicate when a - word which looks quite normal is to be pronounced in some pe culiar way, except at the entry corresponding to that word itself finally the dictionary is useless if one is looking for words which one cannot spell, such as rhubarb, mesembryanthemum or chiro practor. The average synonym book was also found inadequate, for it never gives pronunciations, and it is usually limited to synonyms in the same grammatical class. In one word, the trouble lay with cross-references, the bug bear of the person who has not specialized in research work. To supply a book of convenient size, printed in clear type and with an absolute minimum of abbreviations orcross-refer ences a book that will answer the average adults everyday questions at the place where he is most likely to look for the answer, i. e., at the thought place and not at the grammatical or alphabetical place, and without assuming his acceptance of a philosophical system of classification of knowledge a system - which - would necessarily be arbitrary if not totally out of date at the outset that is the purpose of the Word-Finder. The Word-Finder is not complete that would demand too large a book. It is not scientifically accurate where accuracy - would conflict with necessary brevity or - would be of no interest to the average adult in non-technical work it is not for children or for those who know nothing of the English language. The Word-Finder, being an entirely different kind of book, cannot be judged by comparison with other works it has to be THE WORD-FINDER HOW TO USE IT used constantly to yield its full harvest. Few men are so highly educated that they cannot learn something from almost every page few are so ignorant that they cannot avail themselves of most of its contents. The Word-Finder is presented as an en tirely practical contribution to the art of using language ef fectively and intelligently, and it is expected to act as an intro duction to the more formal and more complete books now in existence dictionaries, synonym books, grammars, treatises on rhetoric, psychology, phonetics, authorship, etc. HOW TO USE THE WORD-FENDER 1. Always look for the simplest word expressing the simplest idea connected with what you are seeking. If you do not know how to spell vegetables, see Plant if you are curious to dis cover the scientific name of fish - lore ichthyology, seeFish if you cannot remember eradicate, see Out if you can neither spell nor pronounce the word Chihuahua, see Dog if you are not sure whether to use a comma, see Comma, or Punctua tion if you do not know the difference between prior and previous see Before. 2. Spend a whole evening looking over the book when you first get it. Glance at every page. Read the entries under Names, War, Water, Motion Pictures, Theatre, Rhetoric, Alpha bet, Syllables, Spelling, Declension, as specimens of the method used...
      



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