The Power of Words (1): All About Language

By Stilovsky and Schrodinger

Words are fundamental to both speech and written communication, but it’s not just the words that fascinate us, we love to learn about their use and the complexities of language too.

Felix Schrödinger and Pyotr Stilovsky have compiled in this, the fourth volume of the series, a compendium of information that will appeal to all who love language and especially those who seek out knowledge for its own sake.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Dec 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9781728381763

Book preview

THE

POWER OF WORDS (1)

All About Language

Stilovsky

and

Schrödinger

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/26/2020

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8177-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-8176-3 (e)

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By the same authors:

Hoggrills End published December 2017

The Power of Numbers published January 2018

The Power of Names published May 2018

The Power of Notes published September 2018

The Power of Words (1) Language December 2018

The Power of Words (2) Literature expected Spring 2019

More ‘Power’ books to follow

Foreword

Our first book was all about numbers, the second about people and the third about music. Our fourth book contains information about language which is predominantly concerned with the current ‘lingua franca’ of the world - English. It should be useful to those of a quizzical nature but should be of general interest to all, especially teachers and students of English.

Readers should be aware that lists like these are never complete and it’s possible that more than the odd error may have crept in so if you propose to use any of the information contained herein, please remember that it is your own responsibility to verify it before such use.

We have generally stuck with the simplified English alphabet and apologise to those who like their accents, graves and cedillas. Remember – this is not Wikipedia!

The Authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Angel Liszt in the production of this book.

Some spelling errors are inevitable in a first edition - if you notice any or omissions we would be most grateful if you would notify them to us at our website which can be found at: https://felixschrodinger.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/using-these-pages/

Pyotr and Felix

Dedicated to all free on-line Wikis, especially

Wikipedia and to Microsoft Word, without which

we could not have produced our manuscript.

Contents

Foreword

Acronyms

Alphabets

The Russian (Cyrillic) Alphabet

Anagrams

Animal Adjectives

Animal Homes

Arabic, Persian and Turkic Expressions

Cheers

Collectives

Collectors

Crosswords

Eponyms

Feminines

Foreign Expressions

French Expressions

German Expressions

Greek Expressions

Hebrew and Yiddish Expressions

Indian and Pakistani Expressions

Italian Expressions

Japanese and Chinese Expressions

‘Isms, and ‘istics

Latin Expressions

Malaprops

Manias

Misused Words

Mottos or Mottoes

Murders

NATO (words used for abbreviations)

‘Ologies

Onomatopoeia

Oxymorons

Palindromes

Phatics etc.

Philes

Phobias

Places (with things named after them)

Plurals

Prefixes and Suffixes

Rhyming Slang

Scrabble*

Shapes

Slogans

Spanish and Portuguse Expressions

Spelling

Unpaired words

Vocabulary

Word of the year

APPENDIX A - Abbreviations

APPENDIX B – Grammatical Terms

APPENDIX C – Poetry

APPENDIX D - Language Families

*Scrabble is a registered trade mark of Hasbro

Acronyms

The formal definition of ‘acronym’ is somewhat complex (including any abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word) so we have restricted this list to those that are actual words or names. Abbreviations are in APPENDIX A.

Alphabets

The Russian (Cyrillic)

Alphabet

Anagrams

Some words make multiple anagrams; here are a few single word examples which occur regularly in crosswords and may also be useful in scrabble.

Animal Adjectives

Animal Homes

Any small animal can live in a vivarium and many wild animals have names for their ‘lair’. The homes of domesticated animals are shown in brackets.

* only joking!

Arabic, Persian and

Turkic Expressions