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Title: There's a Word for It! by Charles Harrington Elster ISBN: 0-671-77858-7 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A logodaedalic delight!
Comment: A remarkable book for anyone who loves words and enjoys reading about them. The point is not to learn new words (a point which may have eluded some reviewers) but to bask in the joy of arcane and long-lost terms or bizarre coinages. It is indeed 'grandiloquent' as advertised - a slightly pretentious and more than slightly off-kilter look at the weirdest the English language has to offer.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Lustful Retreat For The Logomaniac
Comment: A verbivore's delight! If you are a collector of unusual, obscure and fanciful language, this delightful literati gem will take you on a well-organized journey of fabulous, flavorful and forgotten words with a historical perspective and clever samples of usage.
Rating: 4
Summary: Attention, logomaniacs!
Comment: It must be said that if you are looking for a serious reference book to boost a lacking vocabulary, look elsewhere. Using Mr Elster's words may earn you some extremely strange looks. But for those among us who are non-scopophobic and thrive on strange looks, as well as those of us who love the English language, this book should provide endless cachinnation. The blend of true words and nonce-words created from various prefixes and suffixes may at times aggravate those who want to be sure, but how could a real logomaniac be angry with that? Those nonce-words, when they become real, are reminders of exactly how great are the possibilities of this language.
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Title: The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations : The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker by Charles Harrington Elster ISBN: 0395893380 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 28 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: There Is No Zoo in Zoology: And Other Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster ISBN: 0020318308 Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Verbal Advantage : Ten Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary by Charles Harrington Elster ISBN: 0375709320 Publisher: Random House Reference & Pub. Date: 26 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean, Roz Chast, Simon Winchester ISBN: 0195159055 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words by Laurence Urdang ISBN: 1579120601 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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