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Another Word A Day : An All-New Romp through Some of the...

Another Word A Day : An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

Anu Garg
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A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic wordsIn this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations.Praise for a word a day"Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!"--Barbara Wallraff, Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court"AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories."--John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
Año:
2005
Edición:
1
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
240
ISBN 10:
0471778788
ISBN 13:
9780471778783
Archivo:
PDF, 909 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2005
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