The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
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 ChronicleWe 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-29251-0
- EAN: 9780393292510
- Produktnummer: 34248139
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 684 KB
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David Grambs has worked as a lexicographer, editor, travel reporter, and translator. He is the author of five other books pertaining to the English language, including The Endangered English Dictionary, and is coauthor of So You Think You Can Spell? with Ellen S. Levine.
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