Totally Weird and Wonderful Words

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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.

Über den Autor

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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	270 S.
ISBN-13:	9780195312126
ISBN-10:	0195312120
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mckean, Erin
Redaktion:	Mckean, Erin
Herausgeber:	Erin McKean
Illustrator:	Chast, Roz Shanahan, Danny
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Oxford University Press España S.A., El Parque Empresarial San Fernando de Henares, Avendia de Castilla 2, E-28830 Madrid, product.safety@oup.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Erin Mckean
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.03.2007
Gewicht:	0,423 kg