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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words

3.85 ( 52 Ratings by Goodreads)
Totally Weird and Wonderful Words

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words

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3.85 (52 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 11 January, 2007
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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780195312126
ISBN10 0195312120
Number Of Pages 304
Item Weight 386 g
Product Dimensions 140 x 217 x 20 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press Inc
Format paperback
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"If you're tired of using only ordinary, everyday words, you might want to check out "Totally Weird and Wonderful Words." Editor Erin McKean's A-to-Z compendium of hundreds of out-of-the-ordinary words and their definitions will not only help you dress up your vocabulary, but might even turn heads at a cocktail party and raise eyebrows on the elevator."--The Associated Press

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Author's Bio

Erin McKean is the Senior Editor for the Oxford University Press North American Dictionary Program and the Editor of Verbatim magazine. Roz Chast is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker and the author of more than five books of cartoons. Danny Shanahan is a staff cartoonist for the New Yorker and illustrator of numerous books, including The Dead Sea Scroll Palindromes.

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