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2010 Forgotten English Box Calendar by Jeffrey Kacirk
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A 365-Day Calendar of Vanishing Vocabulary and Folklore for 2010 What are Gabriel's hounds, wooden hills, jimrags? Do you prefer clagham with your ackenpucky? Feeling gawmless ... More
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The Big Book of Words You Should Know : Over 3,000 Words Every Person Should be Able to Use (And a few that you probably shouldn't) by David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, Michelle Bevilacqua, Justin Cord Hayes, Justin Cord Hayes
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Do you know what quatrefoil and impolitic mean? What about halcyon or narcolepsy? This book is a handy, easy-to-read reference guide to the proper parlance for any situation. ... More
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Word A Day : A Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English by Anu Garg, Suti Garg
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"Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!" -Barbara Wallraff Senior Editor at The ... More
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Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words by Peter Bowler, Ron Bell (Illustrator)
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The Superior Person's Book of Words (over 100,000 hardcover copies in print). In the words of the author, "The format and the objectives are the same as before. I wish to ... More
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The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words by Peter Bowler, Dennis Corrigan (Illustrator)
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Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean (Editor) , Roz Chast (Illustrator) , Simon Winchester (Foreword by)
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From aboulia, the loss of will or volition, to Zyrian, a language spoken in northern Russia, this dictionary presents words that appealed to McKean (senior editor, Oxford U. ... More
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Shakespeare's Language : A Glossary of Unfamiliar Words in His Plays and Poems by Eugene F. Shewmaker
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Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky, Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Ammon Shea, Ammon Shea
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" Apodyopsis : The act of imagining someone naked. Gound : The crusty yellow substance that collects in the corners of one's eyes while one sleeps. Sacofricosis : Habitual ... More
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The Book of Hard Words : Read It,Know It, Use It by David Bramwell, Stella Hyde
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Burgess Unabridged : A Classic Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed by Gelett Burgess, Herb Roth (Illustrator) , Paul Dickson (Foreword by)
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