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Author : Erin McKean
Release : 2002
Genre : Humor
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 055/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Weird and Wonderful Words by : Erin McKean
Download or read book Weird and Wonderful Words written by Erin McKean. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.
Author : Erin McKean
Release : 2006-10-23
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 032/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Totally Weird and Wonderful Words by : Erin McKean
Download or read book Totally Weird and Wonderful Words written by Erin McKean. This book was released on 2006-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
Author : Erin McKean
Release : 2003
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis More Weird and Wonderful Words by : Erin McKean
Download or read book More Weird and Wonderful Words written by Erin McKean. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title digs deep into forgotten corners of the dictionary, gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than 400 prime specimens with pronunciations, defined in a conversational style.
Author : Josefa Heifetz
Release : 2002-07-31
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 547/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Word Lover's Dictionary by : Josefa Heifetz
Download or read book Word Lover's Dictionary written by Josefa Heifetz. This book was released on 2002-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Solomon
Release : 2019-05-02
Genre : English language
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 102/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Difficult Words by : Jane Solomon
Download or read book The Dictionary of Difficult Words written by Jane Solomon. This book was released on 2019-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.
