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    The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler, Dennis Corrigan (Illustrator)

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    (Hardcover - 1st U.S. ed)

    • Pub. Date: January 1985
    • 118pp
    • Sales Rank: 84,238

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      • Pub. Date: January 1985
      • Publisher: Godine, David R.
      • Format: Hardcover, 118pp
      • Sales Rank: 84,238

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      Are you an Anglophile? (Stout fellow!) Just stand at this springboard and leave the fields of popinjay jabber and tongue-stumped battology behind forever! Stop up for big dividends in the giddy heights of superior speech. Peter Bowler will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, and precise words for vocabular exultation!

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      Bowler provides an entertaining and edifying dictionary of superior words for vocabular exultation. In other words, a collection of more than 500 perfectly precise but often neglected words from acerebral to zzxjoanw. Godine.

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      Superior Person's Book of Wordsby Anonymous

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      July 04, 2005: a most exquisite list of interesting words. if you are one that likes to confuse people with rather large words this is most definitely a necessity. a few examples of terms found in this book: defenestration, acerebral, limaceous, and my personal favorite: comiconomenclaturist.

      Superior Person's Book of Wordsby Anonymous

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      January 29, 2005: My friend and I decided to pick up this book at the library. We had such a great time using the words(that no one knew). We promptly went to Barnes and Nobles and bought not only the first one but the other two as well! This book is great for all ages and is going to have an important place on my shelf for years to come!!


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