Zusatztext "This book will be in demand by all word mavens and language lovers....Elster plumbs the oceanic depths of the English language....His collector's collection of obscure and wonderfully exact words concentrates in turn on extraordinary words relating to health and medicine! love and sex! people! religion! politics! academia! and uncommon words for everyday things....The style of the essays is conversational! though it resembles a fevered all-night conversation with an amazingly learned and wildly obsessed friend." -- Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Charles Harrington Elster is the author of The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Verbal Advantage, and other books about words. He is a guest contributor to The New York Times Magazine's "On Language" column and has been a commentator on hundreds of radio shows. Klappentext Here's an irresistible invitation to discover a treasure trove of exceptional words you can use to add sophistication to your vocabulary and charm to your repartee. Consider that without realizing it you may have engaged in acokoinonia (sex without passion or desire)! been bored to tears by the company of a philodox (someone in love with his or her opinions)! or suffered from recurrent matutolypea (getting up on the wrong side of the bed). Presented with panache by the language connoisseur whom William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee!" There's a Word for It will add a dash of wit to your daily life -- lest anyone mistake you for a sumph (stupid oaf) or fritlag (a good-for-nothing). Zusammenfassung Here's an irresistible invitation to discover a treasure trove of exceptional words you can use to add sophistication to your vocabulary and charm to your repartee. Consider that without realizing it you may have engaged in acokoinonia (sex without passion or desire)! been bored to tears by the company of a philodox (someone in love with his or her opinions)! or suffered from recurrent matutolypea (getting up on the wrong side of the bed). Presented with panache by the language connoisseur whom William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee!" There's a Word for It will add a dash of wit to your daily life -- lest anyone mistake you for a sumph (stupid oaf) or fritlag (a good-for-nothing). ...

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Charles Elster

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Here's an irresistible invitation to discover a treasure trove of exceptional words you can use to add sophistication to your vocabulary and charm to your repartee. Consider that without realizing it you may have engaged in "acokoinonia" (sex without passion or desire), been bored to tears by the company of a "philodox" (someone in love with his or her opinions), or suffered from recurrent "matutolypea" (getting up on the wrong side of the bed). Presented with panache by the language connoisseur whom William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee," "There's a Word for It" will add a dash of wit to your daily life -- lest anyone mistake you for a "sumph" (stupid oaf) or "fritlag" (a good-for-nothing).<