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There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life - Hardcover

Elster, Charles Harrington

 
9780684824550: There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0684824558 ISBN 13: 9780684824550
Verlag: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Warning: This is not simply another book about obscure English words. Instead, it's an open-armed invitation to go on a mischievous, quirky, madcap expedition through the depths of our unabridged dictionaries, where you will learn about all the exceptional words you never knew you needed to know to live a fuller, more verbally enriched life. Consider that without realizing it we may have engaged in acokoinonia (sex without passion or desire), been bored to tears by the company of a philodox (someone in love with his or her own opinions), or suffered from recurrent matutolypea (getting up on the wrong side of the bed).
There's a Word for It! will help you plug gaping holes in your vocabulary and apply vibrant color to the blank spots in your picture of the world. The book also contains a dazzling selection of light verse by such famous (and fabulous) scribes as Hogden Gnash, Anais Numb, and G. B. Pshaw.
Get ready to dig into this delectable lexical feast, served up by the language connoisseur William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles Harrington Elster is the author of The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Verbal Advantage, and other books about words. He is a guest contributor to The New York Times Magazine's "On Language" column and has been a commentator on hundreds of radio shows.

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Verlag
Prentice Hall & IBD
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0684824558
ISBN 13 
9780684824550
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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