Ologies and Isms: A Dictionary of Word Beginnings and Endings (Oxford Paperback Reference) - Softcover

Quinion, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192801236 ISBN 13: 9780192801234

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2002

Synopsis

Aquaculture? Haemophilia? Isochronous? Neuralgia? Polyunsaturated? Rodenticide? How often do we see a technical word without quite knowing what it means? If we can decipher it-undo its language code-we can start to understand others of a similar kind. Ologies and Isms is about the building blocks of the English language - the beginnings and endings, and sometimes the middles - that help form or adapt many of the words we use. Whether you're a student or a practitioner, a teacher of English, an inveterate word-user, or just a seeker-out of linguistic trifles, Ologies and Isms will help you understand better the language of your workplace and the world around you. Contains over 10,000 examples within 1,250 entries Selective thematic index breaks prefixes and suffixes down by theme, eg biochemistry and drugs, living world, places and people Also useful for crossword and word game lovers

About this title

About the Author

Michael Quinion has had a varied career, including BBC studio manager and producer in radio, heritage interpreter, freelance audio-visual scriptwriter and producer, museum curator, tourism consultant, and computer software writer. He has been a freelance researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary since 1992, focussing particularly on new words, and is now also a technical consultant for it. He contributed about a third of the entries to the Second Edition of the Oxford Dictionary of New Words.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192801236
• ISBN 13: 9780192801234
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288