This classic dictionary brings together over 500 nursery rhymes songs nonsense jingles ... more
lullabies and rhyming alphabets traditionally handed on to young children. All the items have been arranged alphabetically from 'A was an apple-pie' to 'Yankee ...
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Let's suppose you are a poet or a song writer and you need a rhyme. Rather than beating your brains out for hours on end wasting paper, what you need is a copy of what is probably the world's best English language rhymingdictionary, the OxfordDictionary of Rhymes. Actually, it is not just a English language rhyming language dictionary, as well as proper names and pace names, it contains foreign teems, too.
Unlike some behemoth rhymingdictionaries, this one is of a sensible size. I can imagine a poet in his or her garret, notebook in one hand, pen or pencil between teeth, with the OxfordDictionary of Rhymes in their other hand.
How is the book laid out? Firstly there is a preface which explains what the book is and also why it is. Then there is the introduction by John Lennard. Actually, this is more than a mere introduction. It ...
The new edition of the OxfordDictionary of Ecology is a very handy reference work for the student of ecology or for those interested in environmental matters.
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The book is also fairly profusely illustrated with clear, concise drawings and some illustrative diagrams, too.
The style of the entries in the book is clear and well ...
Advantages: Wide coverage of many terms Disadvantages: Some puzzling omissions
The OxfordDictionary of Business and Management bills itself as: "best-selling dictionary, containing over 6,750 terms"
And yes, that is a pretty accurate summation of this dictionary. So, I might as well get my coat then? No? You want to know a little more? Then I will tell you.
This is not the first edition of this dictionary. The new (fourth) edition contains 250 new entries.
It covers a wide range of different business terms, from economics to the laws as they relate to operating a business, and there is an appendix of useful business-related websites, too.
Although the dictionary is generally good (some of the concepts are gone over in considerable depth, some with separate one or two page features) some of the categories are a little puzzling. For example, the entry for Netscape Navigator says: "Netscape: One ...
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9780198600886
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Fiction
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Children's
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Oxford University Press
Title
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
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Oxford University Press
ISBN
0198600887
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This classic dictionary brings together over 500 nursery rhymes songs nonsense jingles lullabies and rhyming alphabets traditionally handed on to young children. All the items have been arranged alphabetically from `A was an apple-pie' to `Yankee Doodle came to town' and include such favourites as `A frog he would a-wooing go' `Baa baa black sheep' `Dance to your daddy' `Jack and Jill' and `Old Mother Hubbard'. With each item comes a unique set of historical and bibliographical notes that record the earliest known publication of each piece describe the circumstances of its origin illustrate changes in wording over time and indicate variations and parallels in other languages. In a detailed and fascinating introduction the editors describe the different types of rhyme the earliest published collections theories of origins and such questions as whether or not individual rhymes originally portrayed real people and who was Mother Goose. Complementing the rhymes are nearly a hundred illustrations including reproductions of early appearances in ballad sheets and music books which show the development of nursery rhyme illustrations over the last two centuries.For this revised edition the notes have been updated and extended in the light of recent scholarship providing an unrivalled wealth of literary and bibliographical information. There is also a new essay on the singing tradition of nursery rhymes by Cecily Raysor Hancock making The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes an indispensable source of reference for scholars and book collectors and a volume to be treasured by parents and children alike. `No reader's imagination could fail to be enriched by this book' - Sunday Times `The classic on the subject' - Daily Telegraph.
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