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The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction to The English Tongue
No full textThe Comic English Grammar by Percival Leigh, illustrated by John Leech, is an amusing work that satirizes traditional grammar instruction. In the preface, the author notes that grammar is usually presented as a "dry, dull, stupid" subject, stating his aim is to render it "palatable" and "amusing" to make it more memorable. The book follows the standard grammatical divisions, including Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody. However, it explains each rule using social commentary and humorous personification. For example, when discussing the Parts of Speech, the Article (A, An, The) is defined as an "errand-boy" for nouns, while a Noun is defined with satirical examples such as "a humbug". The work cleverly teaches grammar rules while simultaneously offering a witty critique of the social manners of the era.Percival Leigh tarafından yazılan ve John Leech tarafından resimlenen The Comic English Grammar geleneksel dilbilgisi eğitimini hicveden eğlenceli bir eserdir. Yazar, önsözde, dilbilgisinin genellikle "kuru, sıkıcı ve sıkıcı" bir konu olarak sunulduğunu belirterek, bu eserin amacının konuyu "eğlenceli" ve "akılda kalıcı" bir şekilde sunmak olduğunu ifade eder. Kitap, Yazım (Orthography), Köken Bilimi (Etymology), Sözdizimi (Syntax) ve Prozodi (Prosody) gibi standart dilbilgisi bölümlerini takip eder. Ancak, her bir kuralı sosyal yorumlar ve mizahi kişileştirmelerle açıklar. Örneğin, Sözcük Türleri (Parts of Speech) tartışılırken, Artikel (A, An, The) isimlerin "emir eri" olarak, İsim (Noun) ise "sahtekarlık" (humbug) gibi hicivli örneklerle tanımlanır. Eser, dilbilgisi kurallarını öğretirken aynı zamanda dönemin toplumsal alışkanlıklarına da esprili bir eleştiri getirir
Percival Everett, 38th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPercival Everett is the author of 25 critically acclaimed books, among them Erasure, God\u27s Country, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and Percival Everett by Virgil Russell. Among his many honors are the PEN/USA Award for Fiction, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California
The Comic Latin Grammar
Get PDFPercival Leigh's The Comic Latin Grammar is a "new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue," brilliantly brought to life by the witty illustrations of the famed Punch cartoonist, John Leech. This classic 19th-century work tackles the notoriously dry and difficult "fagging" (hard work) of Latin study by infusing it with humour, puns, and satire. Leigh's stated goal is to facilitate the acquisition of Latin rudiments and render this "fagging as amusing as possible." He delivers on this promise by transforming dull rules into entertainment. The book follows the complete, traditional structure of a standard grammar guide, methodically covering all essential topics: Orthography (letters), Etymology (detailing nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs with their declensions and conjugations), Syntax (the joining of words), and Prosody (pronunciation). Instead of dry maxims, Leigh presents definitions and rules through comical examples and humorous asides, all of which are perfectly complemented by Leech's iconic, playful drawings. This is not a replacement for serious study, but a delightful companion, proving that even the complexities of cases, genders, and irregular verbs can be faced with a smile. It's an essential volume for any student or classicist who believes that learning should be a joyous affair.Percival Leigh'nin The Comic Latin Grammar (Mizahi Latince Grameri), ünlü Punch karikatüristi John Leech'in esprili çizimleriyle zekice hayata geçirilen "Latin diline yeni ve nüktedan bir giriştir". Bu klasik 19. yüzyıl eseri, Latince çalışmanın herkesin bildiği sıkıcı ve zorlu "angaryasını" mizah, kelime oyunları ve hicivle harmanlayarak ele alır. Leigh'nin belirttiği hedefi, Latince'nin temellerinin (rûdimanlarının) edinilmesini kolaylaştırmak ve bu "angaryayı mümkün olduğunca eğlenceli hale getirmektir"; sıkıcı dilbilgisi kurallarını bir eğlence kaynağına dönüştürerek bu sözünü yerine getirir. Kitap, standart bir dilbilgisi rehberinin eksiksiz, geleneksel yapısını takip ederek tüm temel konuları metodik olarak kapsar: İmla (harfler), Etimoloji (isimleri, sıfatları, zamirleri ve fiilleri çekimleriyle detaylandırarak), Sözdizimi (kelimelerin doğru birleştirilmesi) ve Prozodi (telaffuz). Leigh, kuru özdeyişler yerine, tanımları ve kuralları, Leech'in ikonik, esprili çizimleriyle mükemmel bir şekilde tamamlanan komik örnekler ve nükteli yorumlar aracılığıyla sunar. Bu, ciddi bir çalışmanın yerine geçmez, ancak hallerin, cinsiyetlerin ve düzensiz fiillerin karmaşıklığının bile bir gülümsemeyle karşılanabileceğini kanıtlayan keyifli bir refakatçidir. Öğrenmenin, Latince öğrenmenin bile, keyifli bir iş olması gerektiğine inanan her öğrenci veya klasikçi için vazgeçilmez bir eserdir
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Thomas Percival
No full textPercival (1740-1804), a major Enlightenment figure, medical practitioner, educated Edinburgh, Leyden, London, FRS, FRSE, member of the American Academy of Sciences. Demographer, public health and factory reformer, medical author
Percival, Texas
No full text2012 Spring.The five short stories contained herein are the result of an obsession of mine that came about during my first semester at Colorado State University. It is an obsession about a small town in West Texas that does not exist in the real world. In my mind over the past several years, Percival, Texas, has consumed me with its expanding population of people and the stories they have to tell me, stories that I have felt compelled to put down in writing. Although I have started dozens of stories about Percival during my time in the creative writing program, these are the ones that haunted me the most, with characters who kept calling me back for another visit, and another, and so on, demanding as much from me as I could give so that their stories of loss could be properly told. All five stories are about loss in various forms: stories of lost love, loved ones lost, and the loss of innocence. But somehow, in the desert wastelands of Percival, Texas, in the dry heat, dust clouds, and among the lonesome souls, there is hope, and that is why I keep going back. My hope is that I have represented these characters in a way that is true to how I understand them, as people who, although desperate to hold onto what they value most, will end up standing strong in the face of losing it
Percival everett’s creativity in the context of contemporary american literature
No full text© 2019, Universidad del Zulia. All rights reserved. The article deals with the literary creativity of Percival Everett who is considered to be one of the most accomplished and prolific American writers nowadays via comparative qualitative research methods. As a result, the main peculiarity of Percival Everett’s novels is that the author presents his own vision of American and African American literatures and this way of interpretation is based on postmodernist aesthetics mostly. In conclusion, the creativity of Percival Everett is diverse and it presents itself a combination of new and traditional approaches to the themes of American and African American literatures
pyRootHair: Machine learning accelerated software for high-throughput phenotyping of plant root hair traits
Get PDFBackgroundRoot hairs play a key role in plant nutrient and water uptake. Historically, root hair traits have largely been quantified manually. As such, this process has been laborious and low-throughput. However, given their importance for plant health and development, high-throughput quantification of root hair morphology could help underpin rapid advances in the genetic understanding of these traits. With recent increases in the accessibility and availability of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning techniques, the development of tools to automate plant phenotyping processes has been greatly accelerated.ResultsWe present pyRootHair, a high-throughput, AI-powered software application to automate root hair trait extraction from microscope images of plant roots grown on agar plates. pyRootHair is capable of batch processing over 600 images per hour without manual input from the end user. In this study, we deploy pyRootHair on a panel of 24 diverse wheat (Triticum aestivum and Triticum turgidum ssp. durum) cultivars and uncover a large, previously unresolved amount of variation in many root hair traits. We show that the overall root hair profile falls under 2 distinct shape categories and that different root hair traits often correlate with each other. We also demonstrate that pyRootHair can be deployed on a range of plant species, including oat (Avena sativa), rice (Oryza sativa), teff (Eragrostis tef), and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).ConclusionsThe application of pyRootHair enables users to rapidly screen a large number of plant germplasm resources for variation in root hair morphology, supporting high-resolution measurements and high-throughput data analysis. This facilitates downstream investigation of the impacts of root hair genetic control and morphological variation on plant performance. pyRootHair is installable via PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/pyRootHair/) and can be accessed on GitHub at https://github.com/iantsang779/pyRootHair
Percival Everett: An Abecedary
Get PDFPercival Everett is the author of eighteen novels, three collections of poems, three collections of short stories, a book for children and an introduction to Jefferson's Bible. Originally a musician, he is also a painter, a woodworker and a fly fisherman fond of “traveling alone [and] camping out under the stars.” As a young man, he traveled through the US and South America, worked as a ranch hand and later owned a ranch himself, training horses and mules on the edge of the Moreno Valley dese..
(3204) Percival Tookey Leigh Leigh
No full textThis three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria
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