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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 dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Language linguistics

• Pełny tytuł: Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
• Autor: Erin McKean
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 304
• EAN: 9780195312126
• ISBN: 0195312120
• ID: 04031924
• Wydawca: Oxford University Press Inc
• Waga: 232 g
• Wymiary: 204 × 156 × 20 mm
• Data wydania: 11. January 2007

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