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If you are a logophile with cacoëthes scribendi, but your stomach simply wambles when you can't find the perfect word, perendinate no more. Logogogue Charles Harrington Elster, clearly an aristophren, has a cure for logolepts in this compendium of grandisonant scholasms, which are both aureate and inkhorn. If fear of altiloquence gives you graphospasm or makes you spartle, don't croosle. Just remember: sophrosyne is recommended. (Translation: If you are a word lover with an incurable itch to write, but your stomach simply rumbles when you can't find the perfect word, delay no more. Word leader Charles Harrington Elster, clearly a person with a superior intellect, has a cure for people who have seizures about words in this compendium of great-sounding learned words, which are both florid and pedantic. If fear of pomposity gives you writer's cramp or makes you flail about, don't whimper. Just remember: wise moderation is recommended.)
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Elster is a journalist, radio commentator on language, and author of useful and entertaining previous books on pronunciation (Is There a Cow in Moscow?, Macmillan, 1990). Here in 12 fascinating and funny topical chapters with attached glossaries, Elster plumbs the oceanic depths of the English language. Aimed at the word lover (verbiore, logomaniac, etc.), 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. An easy-to-read pronunciation is given for nearly every word listed. The style of the essays is conversational, though it resembles a fevered all-night conversation with an amazingly learned and wildly obsessed friend. The list of nearly 600 phobias, arranged alphabetically by the object of fear, is the answer to a reference librarian's prayers. In the same vein as Irwin M. Berent and Rod L. Evans's Weird Words (Berkley, 1995), this book will be in demand by all word mavens and language lovers. Recommended for libraries of all sizes.?Paul A. D'Alessandro, Portland P.L., Me.
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Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
