An edition of Verbatim
(2001)
Verbatim
by Erin McKean
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Verbatim: from the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists
2001, Harcourt
in English
- 1st ed.
015601209X 9780156012096
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Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists
October 17, 2001, Harvest Books
in English
015601209X 9780156012096
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Verbatim: From the Bawdy to the Sublime, the Best Writing on Language for Word L (Harvest Original)
October 2001, Tandem Library
Unknown Binding
in English
1417706309 9781417706303
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Table of Contents
Grammar and Other Lost Arts --
An Intolerant View of Intolerance -- Laurence Urdang
Intolerable Intolerance, Redux -- Erin McKean
Noun Overuse Phenomenon Article -- Bruce D. Price
Pleonasties -- Harold J. Ellner
What Did You Call Me? Names and Naming --
Unraveling the American Place-Name Cover -- Frank R. Abate
Unofficial Sectional City Names -- Frederic G. Cassidy
New Blood in the Namestream -- John Tittensor
Onomastica Nervosa -- Laurence Urdang
Lots of Englishes --
Sussex, Speak -- Bel Bailey
Socko Names -- George W. Turner
Galling Gallicisms of Quebec English -- Howard Richler
English as she is spoke -- Michael Gorman
Dictionaries and Their Makers --
Sexual Intercourse in American College Dictionaries -- Sidney I. Landau
How Big Is Your Dictionary? -- Robert Ilson
Eccentricity in English Lexicography -- Elmer Suderman
The Seating of Zotz -- Walter C. Kidney
Armchair Linguistics --
Self-Referring Words -- Alexander J. Pollock
Nullspeak: A Question of Rotating Strawberry Madonnas -- Steve Bonner
Polysemania, Semantic Taint, and Related Conditions -- John Ellison Kahn
Tosspots and Wraprascals -- Andrew E. Norman
Quasi Malediction: The Case of Linguistic Malentendu -- D. G. Kehl
Slang, Jargon, and Other Limited-Range Vocabulary --
Lingua Collegiensis circa 1850 -- Charles Lafayette Todd
Slayer Slang -- Michael Adams
Of Eating Rubber and Sno-Cones -- Gerald Eskenazi
Fanguage -- Greg Costikyan
Winking Words -- Philip Michael Cohen
Clown Talk -- Thomas H. Middleton
Mantic Mania -- Robert Devereux
Identity and Language in the SM Scene -- M. A. Buchanan
Other Languages (Just the Good Parts) --
Instant Welsh -- Michael Vercambre
Never Ask a Uruguayan Waitress for a Little Box: She Might Apply Her Foot to Your Eyelet -- John R. Cassidy
From Za-za to San-san: The Climate of Japanese Onomatopoeia -- David Galef
Hocus Pocus -- William Brashear
Where'd That Come From? Etymologies --
Our Playful Vocabulary -- Burt Hochberg
On Again, Off Again, Finnigan -- J. Walter Wilson
"My Name Is Hanes" -- Gerald Cohen
On Blue Moons, and Others -- Nick Humez
Words in Print, Words and Print: The Written Word --
The Twenty-third Psalm and Me, or Has the Nightingale Become a Crow? -- Grace Hollander
The "Wicked" Bibles, or, Let Him Who Is without Sin among You Cast the First Line of Type -- Ray Russell
Red Pants -- Robert M. Sebastian
Funny Words --
British Football Chants -- Pete May
Learn to Spike Lunars -- Robert Archibald Ford
The World according to Student Bloopers -- Richard Lederer
When Everything Was Everything -- Joe Queenan
Irish Bulls in Sundry China Shops -- Robert A. Fowkes
Needless to Say -- Peter Sypnowich
Wordplay and Word Games --
Wordplay -- Gary Egan
A Quick Fox Jumps over the Cwm Fjord-Bank Glyph Biz -- Russell Slocum
The Cryptic Toolbox -- Harry Cohen
Defile Your Records! -- Laurence Urdang
Review of The Mammoth Book of Word Games -- Willard Epsy
Pairing Pairs -- Laurence Urdang
Not in Polite Company --
Meretricious Words, or the Quean's English -- Bryan Garner
Thunderboxes and Chuggies -- Daniel Balado-Lopez
Assing Around -- Jessy Randall and Wendy Woloson
Deciphering the Four-Letter Word in a Medieval Manuscript's Satire on Friars -- Carter Revard
The Ineffable F -- r-Letter Word -- Benedict B. Kimmelman
Revising the F-Word -- Jesse Sheidlower.
Edition Notes
Originally published: San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references.
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