Willard R. Espy (1910–1999)
Autor(a) de The Game of Words
About the Author
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)
Image credit: Louise and Willard Espy, 1981
Séries
Obras 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 cópias
Dear Folk: A Yong Man's Letter to His parents in the 1930's 1 exemplar(es)
Reviews, Interviews, Etc. 1 exemplar(es)
VIVA FACTS ON FILE DICTIONARY OF WRITER'S LIBRARY: WORDS TO RHYME WITH: FOR POETS AND SONGWRITERS - UPDATED ED (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
Though Improper, though uncommon noun 1 exemplar(es)
Wars of the Words 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1910-12-11
- Data de falecimento
- 1999-02-20
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- United States of America
- Local de nascimento
- Oysterville, Washington, USA
- Relacionamentos
- Espy, Freddy Medora (daughter)
Plimpton, George (son in law) - Organizações
- http://espyfoundation.org/
Membros
Resenhas
O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun: An Etymology… de 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.… (mais)
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- Obras
- 25
- Membros
- 1,271
- Popularidade
- #20,174
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 51
- Favorito
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