What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language (Harvest Original). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Collins Reference, 2005
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- Titel
- What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language (Harvest Original)
- Autor
- Elster, Charles Harrington
- Verlag
- Collins Reference
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2005
- Zustand
- Good
- Einband
- Softcover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0156031973
- ISBN-13
- 9780156031974
Are you so sure about “assure,” “ensure,” and “insure”? Can you determine whether a knob of butter is equivalent to a lump or a pat or a scosh? Can you say which word in the English language has the most definitions, or who put the H in Jesus H. Christ?
If you can’t, be assured that Charles Harrington Elster, author of several well-loved works on language, can—and does in his latest book, a delightfully designed compendium of the most common, interesting, and entertaining conundrums in our language. Drawing upon esoteric sources and his own inimitable expertise, Elster uses a lively question-and-answer format to cover a variety of topics—word and phrase origins, slang, style, usage, punctuation, and pronunciation. Every chapter features original brainteasers, challenging puzzles, and a trove of literary trivia.
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
CHARLES HARRINGTON ELSTER is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile-a lover of words. He is the author of several books, including The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Verbal Advantage, and There's a Word for It. He is also a guest contributor to the "On Language" column of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in San Diego.
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