The endangered English dictionary : bodacious words your dictionary forgot

著者

• Grambs, David

書誌事項

The endangered English dictionary : bodacious words your dictionary forgot

David Grambs

W.W. Norton, 1997

• : pbk

内容説明・目次

内容説明

We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear. This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an indispensable resource for every lover of language. A selection: egrutten: having a face swollen from weeping numquid: an inquisitive person sardoodledum: drama that is contrived, stagy, or unrealistic mimp: to purse one's lips

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA33149819
• ISBN:
  • 0393316068
• LCCN: 93032372
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York ; London
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 264 p.
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PE1667
  • DC20 : 423/.1
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English language -- Obsolete words -- Dictionaries
  • LCSH : Aureate terms -- Dictionaries