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020 a| 9780803734067 (hardcover);

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100 1 a| Dubosarsky, Ursula,d| 1961-=| ^A1007550;

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245 14 a| The word snoop /c| Ursula Dubosarsky ; illustrated by Tohby Riddle.;

260 a| New York, NY :b| Dial Books,c| 2009.;

300 a| 246 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 19 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Previously published under title: The word spy, 2008.;

505 0 a| 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.;

520 a| A tour of the English language from the beginning of the alphabet in 4000 BC to modern text messaging and emoticons.;

521 8 a| Lexile: 990.;

586 8 a| A Junior Library Guild selection;

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700 1 a| Riddle, Tohbye| illustrator.=| ^A297728;

700 1 a| Dubosarsky, Ursula,d| 1961-t| Word spy.=| ^A1009106;

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The word snoop / Ursula Dubosarsky ; illustrated by Tohby Riddle.

Author/creator	Dubosarsky, Ursula, 1961-
Other author	Riddle, Tohby illustrator.
Other author	Dubosarsky, Ursula, 1961-
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York, NY : Dial Books, 2009.
Description	246 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subjects	English language--History. --Juvenile literature.

Uniform title	Word spy
Contents	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.
Abstract	A tour of the English language from the beginning of the alphabet in 4000 BC to modern text messaging and emoticons.
General note	Previously published under title: The word spy, 2008.
Audience	Lexile: 990.
Awards note	A Junior Library Guild selection
LCCN	2009008306
ISBN	9780803734067 (hardcover)
ISBN	0803734069 (hardcover)
Stock number	Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com

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