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by Arthur Guy Empey. 315 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Arthur Guy Empey

Publisher:

   G. P. Putnam's Sons

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1917
Subjects:   World War, 1914-1918--Personal Narratives, English Language--Slang--Dictionaries
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"Over the Top"
Book by Arthur Guy Empey; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1917
Subjects: English Language--Slang--Dictionaries, World War, 1914-1918--Personal Narratives
...average American who has not lived and fought with him, the Englishman appears to be distant, reserved, a slow thinker, and lacking...my intention. I have tried to tell my experiences in the language of Tommy sitting on the fire step of a front-line trench...minutes with the old boy, and when he returned, the flow of language from his lips would make a navvy blush for shame. "What...
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A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Book by C. R. M. F. Cruttwell; The Claredon Press, 1934
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
...while the internal history of the belligerent countries is very summarily and imperfectly sketched. As I am writing for English readers, the great side-shows have been perhaps given more prominence than their intrinsic importance deserves. But as the...
3.
Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I
Book by James H. Hallas; Lynne Rienner, 2000
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Personal Narratives, American, World War, 1914-1918--United States
...1. World War, 1914 1918 United States. 2. World War, 1914 1918 Personal narratives, American. I. Title. D570. H25 1999 940.373 dc221 99-28754...viii Introduction 1 1 War 5 2 Over the Pond 31 3...sang, the weapons they used their very concept of the world are mere curiosities to most of us today. But they were...
4.
Paris 1918: The War Diary of the British Ambassador, the 17th Earl of Derby
Book by David Dutton; Liverpool University Press, 2001
Subjects: Ambassadors--Great Britain--Diaries, Derby, Edward George Villiers Stanley--Earl Of--1865-1948--Diaries, France--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, France--Politics And Government--1914-1940, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--France, World War, 1914-1918--Personal Narratives, British
...biographer, Derby was the last of those great English territorial magnates who exercised an...Georges Clemenceau, refusing to speak English at his first meeting with the new ambassador...the effect of such exchange which the English Government had put as being equivalent...
5.
Ideas of Europe since 1914: The Legacy of the First World War
Book by Menno Spiering, Michael Wintle; Palgrave, 2002
Subjects: Europe--History--1918-1945, Europe--History--1945-, Europe--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Europe--Social Conditions--20th Century, European Federation, Fascism, National Socialism, Reconstruction (1914-1939)--Europe, World War, 1914-1918--Psychological Aspects, World War, 1914-1918--Territorial Questions
...published 1999; Combattants et civils du Nord, 1914 1918 1998 ed. ; 14 18, Retrouver la guerre , with Stephane...American and British translations forthcoming; France and World War I forthcoming , with Leonard Smith and Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau...Nation-Building, National Self-Perception and Politics 1780 1914 1994 ; The Nation Supreme: The Idea of Europe 1914 1945...Europeans, in that such a high percentage of families suffered personal bereavement. More than eight million men died as an immediate...and Wintle 2000 ; Shore 2000 . Such official master narratives of what it means to be European were largely absent in...
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1.
Unravelling Digger Yarn-Spinning in World War I
Journal article by Graham Seal; Journal of Australian Studies, 1997
Subjects: Soldiers--Personal narratives, War stories--Australia, World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives
...notably the British and, after 1917, the Americans. The `world at large also included most members of the AIF above the...insight into the self-image of the digger during and after the war. While most of the yarns included have been sourced to the 1914-1918 war, or earlier, their provenance frequently exceeds (and...against the Tommy rather than his officers. Such shared narratives allowed the diggers to trumpet their distinctiveness, the...
2.
Figuring the Absent Corpse: Strategies of Representation in World War I
Journal article by Allyson Booth; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 26, 1993
Subjects: Modernism (Literature)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Woolf, Virginia--Criticism, interpretation, etc., World War, 1914-1918--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...front-line death in the way that English civilians actually experienced...incomprehension is camouflaged by language which allows civilians to sound...word meaning "attack" in military slang. Here, the high-spirited "audience...civilians ignore the gap between language and experience that infuriates...chatty dictionary of Great War slang (1930), John Brophy and Eric Partridge...adjective, not merely for things English and homelike, but as a general...country. That "blighty" was also slang for "a wound which would send you...of Britain as a foreign place. English combatants spent much of the Great...veterans returned to England, the language of their civilian compatriots seems...
3.
"Where Do We Go from Here?": Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" and American Veterans of World War I (1)
Journal article by Steven Trout; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 20, 2000
Subjects: Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mothers and sons--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Soldiers--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Veterans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., World War, 1914-1918--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...approaches Hemingways story not as an account of its creators personal experiences, disguised as fiction, but as a reflection of post-World War I American veterans issues. In other words, I will argue...of Occupation in Germany, and so on--contribute to the narratives ironic themes. Thus, my analysis falls into two sections...as we will see, of some of the most terrible battles of 1918, Krebs is expected, apparently, to jump for joy at the...different conflict from the ultra-mechanized Armageddon of 1914 to 1918. Mr. Krebs, an aloof presence (or, rather, non-presence...
4.
"Always Above": Major Edward 'Mick' Mannock in World War I
Journal article by Thomas G. Bradbeer; Air Power History, Vol. 53, 2006
Subjects: Mannock, Edward--Personal narratives, Military leaders--History, Military leaders--Personal narratives, War--History, Wars--History
...Successful as he was, outside forces were about to bring his world to a crashing halt. When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4, the environment in Turkey changed...air mechanic and then observer with Number 3 Squadron in 1914-1915. After promotion to Flight Sergeant he was sent back...aircraft and advised the squadron armorer that he would personally sight his machine gun. He reset his sights to align at 30...victories before he was shot down and killed on July 31, 1918. MacLanachan would survive the war with 21 victories and...
5.
Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective
Journal article by Michael Reksulak, William F. Shughart Ii., Robert D. Tollison; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 71, 2004
Subjects: Economics--Case studies, English language--Statistics, English language--Usage, Vocabulary--Statistics
...patterns over time in the two dictionaries, the extent to which the data...overestimate the growth of the English language is likewise quite small (compare...at a point in time. Although dictionaries of the English language certainly are available for...word forms "in modern dictionaries...Table 2. New Words Added to the English Language, by Century, 252-1985...
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"Invent Radium or I'll Pull Your Hair" (a Story of a Woman's Youth during and after World War One)
Magazine article by Doris Drucker; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 282, August 1998
Subjects: Drucker, Doris, German writers, Lahnstein, Clara, Memoirs, World War I, 1914-1918--Personal narratives
...admired the Victorian ambiance, or at least its idealization: we were supposed to look and behave like those imagined well-bred English children. My hair was rolled up in stiff paper curlers every night (I still remember how hard it was to find a sleeping position...
2.
The Word on the Street: The English Language Is Continually Evolving, as Two New Slang Dictionaries Prove. but the Best Place to Learn the Meaning of Words Such as "Sketty", "Yatty" and "Baphead" Is on Any London Bus at 8.30 in the Morning, Writes Lynsey Hanley
Magazine article by Lynsey Hanley; New Statesman, Vol. 134, December 19, 2005
Subjects: 2005 Blogged: Despatches from the Blogosphere (Book), Books--Book reviews, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (Book), The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Book)--Book reviews
...preferably rude, neologism to reassure you that English speakers enjoy the bendiest and most hair-curling vernacular in the world. Lovers of slang and made-up words should expect their Christmas stocking to be rather heavier than usual, with the publication...
3.
The New Pilgrims to Somme
Magazine article by Matthew Batstone; New Statesman, Vol. 127, July 10, 1998
Subjects: Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916--Personal narratives, World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives
...and I am among them. Many people now experience the first world war as entertainment - through Pat Barkers Regeneration or Carlton...pictures), the imaginative leap you need to make from 1998 to 1914 is small. Visiting northern France is like coming home to...
4.
Do You Speak American? "Well, Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit"; a Documentary on the English Language, as Spoken in the U.S., Is Airing on PBS
Magazine article by Robert Macneil; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 133, January 2005
Subjects: American English--History, American English--Research, Black English--History, Black English--Research, English language in the United States--History, English language in the United States--Research
...thought ol master was dead, but he wash.... Hed been off to the war an come back. All the niggers gathered aroun to see ol master...say that these features did not exist in black speech before World War II. They conclude that, after the great migration to the...
5.
Fear of Falling: Working in the Mop-and-Bucket Brigade in College Created the Perspectives of a Lifetime
Magazine article by James Mcconkey; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Winter 2007
Subjects: College graduates--Personal narratives, Scholarships (Financial aid)--Services, Scholarships--Services, Universities and colleges--Ohio, Universities and colleges--Political aspects, World War I, 1914-1918
...demolished to become a temporary parking lot after the final World War II veterans had attended classes on the GI Bill. In this...janitorial trade. James McGonkey is Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus at Gornell. His books include The...
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Dictionaries Take Lead in Redefining Modern Marriage; Many Add Same-Sex References
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 25, 2004
...Webster spokesman Arthur Bicknell said. He explained that watchful dictionary editors must parse new words or slang in contemporary culture, but they also must monitor "existing words with a new sense," basing their judgment on...hear such criticism from all parts of the political spectrum. Were genuinely sorry when an entry in one of our dictionaries is found to be offensive or upsetting, but we cant allow such considerations to deflect us from our primary job as lexicographers, which is to create a painstakingly accurate and comprehensive record of the English language."
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My Live
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), May 19, 2007
...poo" and "wee" in more conventional dictionaries. The Dictionary of Slang contains, as you might expect, lots...fascinating testament to how flexible the English language has become. There are phrases from...wherever people are, they will take the language and make it theirs by coming up with...my mission to get everyone using slang at every opportunity. Never mind...calendars, we should all add colourful slang phrases from 16th Century England...
3.
Horse Dookie Can Be Fun, Even If No One Understands You
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 19, 2007
...poo" and "wee" in more conventional dictionaries. The Dictionary of Slang contains, as you might expect, lots...fascinating testament to how flexible the English language has become. There are phrases from...wherever people are, they will take the language and make it theirs by coming up with...my mission to get everyone using slang at every opportunity. Never mind...calendars, we should all add colourful slang phrases from 16th-century England...
4.
Wordsmiths Get Own 'Funplex' in Revised Merriam-Webster
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 1, 2003
...presidents" means the cash that revelers use to pay for it all, even if they have a "McJob," or low-paying work. "Dictionaries are not just a place to find correct spellings and meanings. The story of words is the story of American life...get them out there," he said. But the dictionary has its limits, unlike the brand-new 75th-anniversary Oxford English Dictionary, which weighs in at 20 volumes and 22,000 pages. "To keep our dictionary manageable, some words have...Bicknell said. It is the endless editing job. New words are gleaned constantly from movies, the Internet, slang, food, medicine, music, marketing, sports, politics and anything else that catches the watchful eye of staff editors...word flux is just part of the business. "There are always new words coming in. Thats the nature of the English language," he said yesterday. Meanwhile, the publisher is making the multivolume dictionary more attractive to the general...
5.
Lexicons Wage War of Words by Books: Publishers Pursue Definitive Glossary
Newspaper article by Jennifer Harper; The Washington Times, September 9, 1999
Lexicons wage war of words by books: Publishers pursue definitive glossary by Jennifer...everywhere. And they are everywhere. English is spoken, as well as read, the world over. Each person has his or her own etymological needs. There are plenty...
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