Willard R. Espy (1910–1999)
Auteur de The Game of Words
A propos de l'auteur
The late Willard Espy wrote more than fifteen books on language & other subjects. His works include "An Almanac of Words at Play", "The Garden of Eloquence", & "Have a Word on Me". (Bowker Author Biography)
Crédit image: Louise and Willard Espy, 1981
Séries
Œuvres de Willard R. Espy
Say it my way : how to avoid certain pitfalls of spoken English together with a decidedly informal history of how our… (1980) 43 exemplaires
Words at Play: Palindromes, Riddles, Malapropisms, and Other Wonderful Word Games (1972) 40 exemplaires
Reviews, Interviews, Etc. 1 exemplaire
VIVA FACTS ON FILE DICTIONARY OF WRITER'S LIBRARY: WORDS TO RHYME WITH: FOR POETS AND SONGWRITERS - UPDATED ED (2005) 1 exemplaire
Though Improper, though uncommon noun 1 exemplaire
Wars of the Words 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1910-12-11
- Date de décès
- 1999-02-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- United States of America
- Lieu de naissance
- Oysterville, Washington, USA
- Relations
- Espy, Freddy Medora (daughter)
Plimpton, George (son in law) - Organisations
- http://espyfoundation.org/
Membres
Critiques
O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun: An Etymology… par Willard R. Espy
3/14/22
Born old? Try this! If you like "Wordy Gurdy" you'll love "Words at Play"!
A happy story: I started The Lightning Thief, a children's book,and then received this book. The first chapter of O Thou deals with words taken from Greek gods, and each entry in the chapter tells a little about each god and why he was important. The Lightning Thief is the story of a boy who is half-god and he is being sought by many other Greek mythological creatures. O Thou gave me enough info about each god and mythological creature mentioned in The Lightning Thief to help me anticipate events in the story. Very nice.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 25
- Membres
- 1,271
- Popularité
- #20,174
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 51
- Favoris
- 3
