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| 資料類型: | 網際網路資源 |
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| 文件類型: | 圖書, 網路資源 |
| 所有的作者/貢獻者: |
Erin McKean; Danny Shanahan |
| ISBN: | 0195170571 9780195170573 |
| OCLC系統控制編碼: | 52341441 |
| 描述: | xiii, 130 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| 内容: | Finding New Weird and Wonderful Words 118 -- A Webliography of Weird and Wonderful Word Sites 123 -- The Logophile's Bibliography 127. |
| 責任: | edited by Erin McKean ; illustrations by Danny Shanahan ; with a foreword by Richard Lederer. |
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<br>"McKean, senior editor for the Oxford University Press North American Dictionary Project, has gleaned some fascinating words for our enjoyment....A welcome addition."--Library Journal<br>Lexicographer McKean, editor of Verbatim magazine, has combed the Oxford English Dictionary to come up with more than 400 choice items for this amusing dictionary of rarely used words. Perhaps youve recently been guilty of acrasia ("the state of mind in which you act against your better judgment"). Perhaps you need a new synonym for "slut": Drazel will do quite nicely. Or perhaps youve been offended but are willing to offer the guilty party ignoscency ("forgiveness"). You may never find a reason to use the word "dromaeognathous" ("having a palate like that of an emu"), but just encountering it here could brighten your day. New Yorker cartoonist Shanahan adds a touch of whimsy to the enterprise with his comic illustrations. Lighthearted and instructive, this small volume would make a good gift book 再讀一些...
