Endangered English Dictionary

Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear.This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an indispensable resource for every lover of language.A selection:egrutten: having a face swollen from weepingnumquid: an inquisitive personsardoodledum: drama that is contrived, stagy, or unrealisticmimp: to purse one's lips

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-08-17
Mått:142 x 211 x 20 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393316063

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David Grambs has worked as a lexicographer, editor, travel reporter, and translator. He is the author of five other books pertaining to the English language, including The Endangered English Dictionary, and is coauthor of So You Think You Can Spell? with Ellen S. Levine.

Recensioner i media

"The next time you see some guy stagger out of a bar ready to take on the world, 'drunk and feeling brave,' you can dismiss him with a single word: potvaliant! That short, fat person nearby on the subway is fubsy, and his thickset companion is spuddy. The loudmouth a few seats away is bloviating, his babblative chatter little more than clatterfart. This can be addictive..." -- Jonathan Yardley "Now that Grambs has introduced me to it, I plan to make good use of 'bloviation,' meaning talking windily, as in political candidates or sports commentators." -- Digby Diehl