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Weird and Wonderful Words
Weird and Wonderful Words
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195159059
ISBN-10: 0195159055
Publication Date: 8/30/2002
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Lots of fun to read. All sorts of bon mots to slip into conversations.
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If you like reading about how words came about, and also picking up a new word or two for your vocabulary, this book is for you.


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