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" The word snoop / "
Ursula Dubosarsky ; illustrated by Tohby Riddle
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BL
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702050
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b524239
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| Main Entry
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Dubosarsky, Ursula,1961-
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The word snoop /\ Ursula Dubosarsky ; illustrated by Tohby Riddle
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: Dial Books,, 2009
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246 p. :: ill. ;; 19 cm
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| ISBN
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0803734069
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: 9780803734067
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| Notes
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Previously published under title: The word spy, 2008
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| Contents
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How it all began: First alphabet -- English alphabet -- Let's change the alphabet -- Invent your own alphabet -- Shorthand -- Why is English so strange?: Silent letters -- Invention of printing -- American spelling -- Plurals -- Hooray for Anglo-Saxon! -- Shakespeare and the bible -- Dots and dashes, interrobangs and cat's claws: Punctuation -- Punctuation: signs & symbols -- Comma, colon: period. -- Question mark -- Exclamation mark -- Interrobang -- Quotation marks -- Apostrophe -- Punctuation in other languages -- Punctuation: do we need it? -- Letters, letters, letters: Anagrams -- Pangrams -- Lipograms -- Acronyms -- LLL (Latin, Latin, Latin) -- Well-mannered acronyms -- Dot dot dot -- And finally the backronym... -- Is that another Greek word?: Palindromes -- Mnemonics -- Oxymorons -- Who likes playing games?: Pig Latin -- Rebus -- Rhyming slang -- Say that again!: Puns -- Homophones -- Mondegreens -- Onomatopoeia -- Tongue twisters -- Portmanteau words -- Hmm, I wonder that you're really saying...: Euphemisms -- Don't mention it -- Doublespeak -- Cliches -- Tautology -- Is that a real person?: Nicknames -- Eponyms -- Spoonerisms -- Tom Swifties -- Malapropisms -- Pen names -- Back to the future: Telegramese -- Texting, LOL, Leet and more -- Smileys
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A tour of the English language from the beginning of the alphabet in 4000 BC to modern text messaging and emoticons
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English language-- History, Juvenile literature
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| LC Classification
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PE1075.D83 2009
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Duborsarsky, Ursula,1961-
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Riddle, Tohby
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