1000 Most Obscure Words - Norman W. Schur
KORTE INHOUD
-Have you ever searched for the same vaguely obscene-sounding word to describe a self-igniting match and a 19th century band of political radicals?
-After once again denigrating our feckless public officials, have you ever wondered how you could describe a politician with an abundance of "feck"?
-Lying awake in bed at night, have you asked yourself why you have only malapert friends?
If you find yourself repeatedly asking these or similar questions, you may have be in dire need of a book that offers a rich sampling of strange - but always entertaining- words and terms.
Norman Schur, the irrepressible author of three critical acclaimed "1000 Most" dictionaries and 'British english, a to zed', has now culled a witty lexicon from just those regions of the human imagination that only obscure words can describe.
Though all Mr. Schur's previous books have cleaved to practical aim of enriching readers'vocabularies, this volume is a shameless display of outright word-worship. Here will be found the least remembered and mo...
-After once again denigrating our feckless public officials, have you ever wondered how you could describe a politician with an abundance of "feck"?
-Lying awake in bed at night, have you asked yourself why you have only malapert friends?
If you find yourself repeatedly asking these or similar questions, you may have be in dire need of a book that offers a rich sampling of strange - but always entertaining- words and terms.
Norman Schur, the irrepressible author of three critical acclaimed "1000 Most" dictionaries and 'British english, a to zed', has now culled a witty lexicon from just those regions of the human imagination that only obscure words can describe.
Though all Mr. Schur's previous books have cleaved to practical aim of enriching readers'vocabularies, this volume is a shameless display of outright word-worship. Here will be found the least remembered and mo...
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