Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot

We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than...
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Author: David Grambs
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Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot by Grambs, David

Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot

$275.18

Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot

$275.18
Author: David Grambs
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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


  • Author: David Grambs
    Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
    Published: 08/01/1997
    Pages: 280
    Binding Type: Paperback
    Weight: 0.57lbs
    Size: 8.26h x 5.50w x 0.68d
    ISBN: 9780393316063

    About the Author
    Grambs, David: - David Grambs has worked as a lexicographer, editor, travel reporter, and translator. He is the author of five other books pertaining to the English language, including The Endangered English Dictionary, and is coauthor of So You Think You Can Spell? with Ellen S. Levine.

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