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Word fugitives

著者: Barbara Wallraff
出版商: New York : Collins, 2006.
版本/格式:   图书 : 英语 : 1st ed查看所有的版本和格式
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Word Fugitives comes tot he rescue, supplying hundreds of inspired words coined or redefined to meet everyday needs. For instance, wouldn't it be handy to have a word for the momentary confusion people experience when they hear a cell phone ringing and wonder whether it's theirs. (How about fauxcellarm, phonundrum, or pandephonium?) Or what about a word for offspring who are adults? (Try unchildren or offsprung.) Or  再读一些...
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类型/形式: Humor
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所有的著者/提供者: Barbara Wallraff
ISBN: 0060832738 9780060832735
OCLC号码: 61879832
注意: Includes index.
描述: xiii, 192 p. ; 19 cm.
责任: Barbara Wallraff.
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Filled with delightful examples, this book is the ultimate celebration of word coinages, from "empty-fest syndrome" to "ringchronicity."  再读一些...

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"No fugitive word, however crafty or devious, can escape the clutches of that peerless lexical sleuth Barbara Wallraff."--Patricia T. O'Conner, author of Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better 再读一些...

 
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