Amazing Words: An Alphabetical Anthology of Alluring, Astonishing, Astounding, Bedazzling, Beguiling, Bewitching, Enchanting, Enthralling, Entrancing, ... Tantalizing, Temtping, and Transfixing Words - Softcover

Lederer Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936863308 ISBN 13: 9781936863303

Verlag: Marion Street Press Inc., 2012

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Book by Lederer Richard

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"Lederer beguiles and bedazzles." -- Los Angeles Times "Columnist and punster Richard Lederer may be William Safire's only living peer at writing about grammar, word usage, and derivations." -- Washington Post Book World "Richard Lederer's delight in English is itself delightful and contagious!" --Edwin Newman, author, Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue

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With fascinating etymologies and letter patterns of more than 400 everyday words, bestselling language writer Richard Lederer offers insights into the most bedazzling, beguiling, and bewitching words in the English language. Readers will discover why William Shakespeare may be hiding in the Old Testament; why "run" is the longest word in English; how people's names become common words; and how the Bible, mythology, the sea, the land, show business, and games spark words and phrases in everyday vocabulary. Chock-full of transfixing word histories, magical letter play, and hilarious puns, Amazing Words is an essential book for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores.

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• Verlag: Marion Street Press Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936863308
• ISBN 13: 9781936863303
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224