Yuma Public Library

Alphabetical guide to more than 15,000 words, with rules that help make word endings more predictable, tricks to help you remember how to spell commonly misspelled words, and a misspeller's dictionary to help you find that word that you don't know how to look up.

An alphabetical listing of common figures of speech, along with their definitions and origins.

Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors.

Explains the purpose and importance of punctuation and how it is used, covering apostrophes, colons, commas, exclamation points, hyphens, parentheses, slashes, and more.

Humor and illustrations add spice to over 600 definitions and origins of common idiomatic phrases. Not to let the cat out of the bag, but this one's it's a barrel of monkeys. Each page includes one lightly comical line drawing of a child expressing feelings such as quizzical, annoyed, amused, or distressed.

Introduces and explains more than 100 expressions which mean something different than the separate words in the group. For example: raise the roof, hold your horses, and carry a tune.