The Endangered English Dictionary
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: David Grambs
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-08 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Modern dictionaries are the result of a paring away of the glory of the English language, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price p
The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: David Grambs
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-08-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, Sa
Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Rod L. Evans Ph.D.
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-07 - Publisher: Penguin

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Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scrat
The Describer's Dictionary
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: David Grambs
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-08 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A dictionary of the observable world features definition-first organization; passages from the writings of James, Updike, and others; and words concerning shape
Garner on Language and Writing
Language: en
Pages: 884
Authors: Bryan A. Garner
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: American Bar Association

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Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects.