An edition of What in the word?
(2005)
What in the word?
wordplay, word lore, and answers to the peskiest questions about language
1st ed.
by Charles Harrington Elster
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What in the word?: wordplay, word lore, and answers to the peskiest questions about language
2005, Harcourt, Inc.
in English
- 1st ed.
0156031973 9780156031974
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Table of Contents
Once upon a word : word histories, mysteries, hoaxes, and hype : sorting the tall tales from the truth
A slough of solecisms : wherein the author leads you safely out of a morass of mistakes and misperceptions into the clear, comforting light of correct English
The grandiloquent gumshoe : words recovered, discovered, and devised
The elegance of style : distinctions, clarifications, niceties, and other little things that make your language more polished and precise
A civil tongue : wherein the author launders your pronunciation and presses you to speak with propriety and poise
Born in the U.S.A. : some quintessentially American words and expressions, from okay to humongous, with some other American stuff thrown in just for fun
The wonder of words : a fascinating farrago of word lore and wordplay that just didn't fit anywhere else.
Edition Notes
A Harvest original.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-273) and index.
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