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Webster\u27s Third Book of Records
The Guinness Book of Records has cataloged the world\u27s extremes for nearly 50 years. First appearing in Britain in 1955 and the US in 1956, this book has listed the highest, the lowest, the hottest, the coldest, the longest, the smallest and so on, from a wide range of natural phenomena and human endeavors
Menorah Review (No. 66, Winter/Spring, 2007)
A Collection by MR\u27s Poet Laureate -- Examining Historiography -- Revisiting Jewish Radicalism -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Why a Dictionary of Antisemitis
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Watch out! The corpus, verb usage, and the non-native teacher of English
For non-native teachers of English (especially in Japanese high schools), questions of appropriate English usage and possibility are constant. Although corpora usage has widely
been discussed as a useful tool for EFL students, this paper discusses the possibility of corpus-usage for non-native EFL instructors in answering questions of usage and helping prepare material for classrooms. Using the online British National Corpus, a simple step-by-step methodology for teachers searching words with shared meaning and usage was presented. Analysis of the search results shows that although corpus results are often complex and require time to sufficiently analyze, corpus studies can help clarify usage and meaning questions. The paper discusses the problems of motivation with using the corpus and discusses possibilities for improving teacher motivation for using corpus studies
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What\u27s the Good Word?
What is an acceptable word? has been the topic of a number of Word Ways articles. Answers range from a Pocket Dictionary main entry (for certain problems) to anything remotely wordlike (see The Ultimate Adventure elsewhere in this issue). I think, however, that it makes more sense to change the question to what is acceptability? noting that (1) words vary in acceptability, (2) the unacceptability line will be drawn at different points in the continuum by different people, or for different problems, and (3) a word\u27s acceptability has at least two dimensions, centrality and reliability, which depend strongly on its source. Clearly defined scales of acceptability will not resolve the question, since people will disagree on the importance of this factor or that, but they should at least clarify discussions of the problem
A Pale Gold Raven and Other Poems
Poe\u27s The Raven\u27 and Other Poems was a collection of some of the best verse of his career. This collection of my own verse is definitely not of the same quality, but the logological constraints followed should be of interest to readers
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