The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot

The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9780393292510
ISBN-13 : 0393292517
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Download or read book The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot written by David Grambs and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-08-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle 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 weeping numquid: an inquisitive person sardoodledum: drama that is contrived, stagy, or unrealistic mimp: to purse one's lips


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