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Title: Word Spy : The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture by PAUL MCFEDRIES ISBN: 0-7679-1466-X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Summary: Modern Times: McJobs, dot-bombs and cell yell
Comment: After nine years of hosting one of the most popular websites on neologisms - words which have entered our vocabularies, but not yet our dictionaries -- Paul McFedries has written a tourist's guide to modern society using new words as signposts.
What better indication is there of what is important to us than the new words we create? We live in a world that is more stressed ("road rage", "postal"), older ("boomeritis", "silver ceiling"), and self-consciously materialistic ("metrosexual", "McMansion"). We are also a generation which has incorporated such words of war and destruction as "weapons-grade" into our everyday vocabulary. No wonder some of us are "downsizing", moving "off-the-grid" and reading "comfort books".
Paul McFedries is a self-proclaimed "neologophiliac". What he really loves, like H L Mencken, is: "the biology of language, as opposed to its paleantology". Best of all, he is able to express that "irrational exhuberance" in language that is funny and light.
There are regular additions to McFedries' collection of new words on http://www.wordspy.com/ .
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Title: The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex by Mark Steven Morton, Mark Morton ISBN: 1894663519 Publisher: Insomniac Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: New Words by Orin Hargraves ISBN: 0195172825 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Language Visible : Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z by DAVID SACKS ISBN: 0767911725 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit & Wisdom From History's Greatest Wordsmiths by Mardy Grothe ISBN: 0060536993 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester ISBN: 0198607024 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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