Name: Weird and Wonderful Words (en Inglés)
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Author: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9780195159059

portada Weird and Wonderful Words (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Ilustrado por

Roz Chast

Erin McKean

Prefacio de

Simon Winchester

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Simon Winchester

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

144

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.0 x 13.9 x 1.7 cm

Peso

0.32

ISBN

0195159055

ISBN13

9780195159059

Categorías

Lenguaje: consulta y general
Aprendizaje de idiomas: gramática, vocabulario y pronunciación
Humor

Weird and Wonderful Words (en Inglés)

Roz Chast (Ilustrado por) · Simon Winchester (Prefacio de) · Erin McKean (Ilustrado por) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Dura

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Do you know what a snollygoster is? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. Tie your tongue in knots trying to say such sesquipedalian words as floccinaucinihilipilification or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Weird and Wonderful Words.Weird and Wonderful Words is a potpourri--a gallimaufry--a salmagundi--a collection of colorful and strange words. Compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, the book contains hundreds of definitions written in a clear and conversational style accompanied by full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.Smart and funny and with just a touch of whimsy, Weird and Wonderful Words is the perfect book for reading in your sitooterie with a bumbo in your hand while mavises sing in your earor something like that.A sampling of Weird and Wonderful Words:*Autochthon: a human being born from the soil where he or she lives (like the Biblical Adam). Also used as a synonym for aborigine, it comes from a Greek word meaning sprung from that land itself.*Camorra: a secret society, usually one breaking the law. This word comes from the name of group that was active in Naples in the nineteenth century.*Snollygoster: a dishonest politician, especially a shrewd or calculating one. A connection has been proposed between this word and snallygaster, a mythical monster of Maryland, invented to frighten freed slaves. However, the first evidence for snallygaster follows snollygoster by about a hundred years, making a connection (in this direction, at least) unlikely.*Tigon: the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a lioness. A liger is the offspring produced by a male lion and a tigress.

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Simon Winchester. La biografía de este popular escritor, periodista y locutor británico está repleta de anécdotas: en 1977, The Guardian le designó como corresponsal extranjero en Nueva Delhi y fue en coche desde Oxford. Mientras cubría para The Sunday Times la ocupación de las Malvinas en 1982, fue secuestrado. Ha dedicado su vida a escribir libros divulgativos, entre los que destaca The Professor and the Madman. Por sus servicios al periodismo y la literatura fue nombrado oficial de la Orden del Imperio Británico.

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