Stories
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- Article
The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
- Article
Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
- Article
History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
Catalogue
- E-journals
- Online
English language and linguistics
Date: 1997-- Books
An etymological dictionary of the English language / by Walter W. Skeat.
Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912.Date: 1882- Books
A dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language. Containing the accentuation - the grammatical inflections - the irregular words referred to their themes - the parallel terms, from the other Gothic languages - the meaning of the Anglo-Saxon in English and Latin - and copious English and Latin indexes, serving as a dictionary of English and Anglo-Saxon, as well as of Latin and Anglo-Saxon / By the Rev. J. Bosworth.
Bosworth, Joseph, 1787 or 1788-1876.Date: 1808 [i.e. 1838]- Books
- Online
A new grammar of the English language; or, an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English with propriety and correctness: the whole laid down in the most plain and familiar manner, and calculated for the use, not only of schools, but of private gentlemen. By D. Fenning, author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority). - The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - The Universal Spelling-Book. - The New Spelling-Dictionary. - The British Youth's Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - The Ready reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready cast up. - The Young Man's Book of Knowledge. - The Young Measurer's Complete Guide. - The Youth's Familiar Guide to Trade and Commerce. - And the Young Algebraist's Companion.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1790?]- Books
- Online
A new grammar of the English language; or, an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English with propriety and correctness: The Whole Laid Down In The Most Plain And Familiar Manner, And Calculated For The Use, Not Only Of Schools, But Of Private Gentlemen. By D. Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority). - The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - The Universal Spelling-Book. - The New Spelling Dictionary. - The British Youth's Instructor; or, A New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - The Ready Reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready cast up. - The Young Man's Book of Knowledge. - The Young Measurer's Complete Guide. - The Youth's Familiar Guide to Trade and Commerce. And the Young Algebraist's Companion.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]