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Author : Peter Bowler
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Humor
ISBN : 087923556X
This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.
Author : PETER. BOWLER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1408888653
'Words are not only tools; they are also weapons' The secret to being a truly Superior Person is to use really superior words. More impressive than a top hat, much more effective than a fist-fight, here are five hundred words to help you wiggle out of sticky debates, deal with obnoxious dinner guests and fill in sick leave application forms with panache. Impress your friends, amaze your colleagues and baffle your enemies with this witty, charming, and clever little book.
Author : Peter Bowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : English language
ISBN : 0725602422
Author : Peter Bowler
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Humor
ISBN : 087923928X
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 equip the person in the street with new and better verbal weapons. Features 600 words. 15 line illustrations.
Author : P. Bowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1863301852
Author : Peter Bowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781408885956
'Words are not only tools; they are also weapons.' Peter Bowler's guides, as his thousands of fans worldwide already know, are witty, charming, and clever volumes that introduce weird and wonderful words. Now the three volumes are published in a collected edition for the first time to provide words to help you wriggle out of sticky debates, deal with obnoxious dinner guests and fill in sick leave application forms with panache. A picturesque panoply of words of which neither you nor anyone else has ever heard, Bowler provides not only an expanded range of words themselves, but also a genuine sense how to employ them to devastating effect. The Completely Superior Person's Book of Words is an arsenal of over a thousand sonifacient verbal weapons with which to verbigerate your friends and gorgonise your enemies.
Author : Jerry Reedy,Fred Webber
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781796057799
“Bethumpt The Best and Worst of the Wördos” is a collaborative effort of Jerry Reedy, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Fred Webber, B.A., Journalism. The authors hope this book will give readers an understanding of the origin of words and their past and present meanings and usage. They also hope readers will enjoy the book. It’s not intended to be pedantic or instructional... just interesting and sometimes fun. Both authors belong to Wördos, a group of people who meet monthly to talk about the often careless use of English in the media. We believe that the failure to write clearly jeopardizes understanding and believability, and that writing well is important in establishing credibility and competence. There’s more about the Wördos in the book. And speaking of the book, if you’re wondering about the origin of “Bethumpt,” you’ll have to buy the book to find out!
Author : Peter Bowler
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1567921612
A collection of unusual and amusing words.
Author : Charles Harrington Elster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781416510864
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).
Author : Jason Travis Ott
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781682688007
This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrizes the boggles of our palaver.* Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, antiquated argot from myriad epochs, and lexemes for venturesome bibliophiles. Featuring a short, insightful introduction, Grandiloquent Words offers more than 250 preternatural terminologies for you to ingurgitate and brandish with aplomb for countless occasions. Bask in cataracts of mundane morphemes, bookish locutions, beef-witted blatteroons, corporeal catastrophes, playful patois, and jolly jubilations. These always-extra expressions encompass timeless topics and modern phenomena, painting a group portrait of our foibles and joys. Replete with pronunciations, etymologies, examples, and whimsical illustrations, it will edify and entertain. *This rare collection of definitions celebrates the marvels of our language.
Author : Rod L. Evans Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781101515921
Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now? Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark. Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined-your brain will thank you. *catachresis: strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word; *defenestrate: to throw out a window; *phloem bundles: stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana; *diastema: the gap between teeth in a jaw; *occiput: the back part of the head or skull
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Australia
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Dr Helen Cousins,Dr Jenni Ramone
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409478904
In January 2004, daytime television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan launched their book club and sparked debate about the way people in Britain, from the general reader to publishers to the literati, thought about books and reading. The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader brings together historians of the book, literature scholars, and specialists in media and cultural studies to examine the effect of the club on reading practices and the publishing and promotion of books. Beginning with an analysis of the book club's history and its ongoing development in relation to other reading groups worldwide including Oprah's, the editors consider issues of book marketing and genre. Further chapters explore the effects of the mass-broadcast celebrity book club on society, literature and its marketing, and popular culture. Contributors ask how readers discuss books, judge value and make choices. The collection addresses questions of authorship, authority and canon in texts connected by theme or genre including the postcolonial exotic, disability and representations of the body, food books, and domesticity. In addition, book club author Andrew Smith shares his experiences in a fascinating interview.
Author : Helen Cousins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317017806
In January 2004, daytime television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan launched their book club and sparked debate about the way people in Britain, from the general reader to publishers to the literati, thought about books and reading. The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader brings together historians of the book, literature scholars, and specialists in media and cultural studies to examine the effect of the club on reading practices and the publishing and promotion of books. Beginning with an analysis of the book club's history and its ongoing development in relation to other reading groups worldwide including Oprah's, the editors consider issues of book marketing and genre. Further chapters explore the effects of the mass-broadcast celebrity book club on society, literature and its marketing, and popular culture. Contributors ask how readers discuss books, judge value and make choices. The collection addresses questions of authorship, authority and canon in texts connected by theme or genre including the postcolonial exotic, disability and representations of the body, food books, and domesticity. In addition, book club author Andrew Smith shares his experiences in a fascinating interview.
Author : Peter Novobatzky,Ammon Shea
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781429979009
At last, a compendium of ingeniously insulting words for every occasion. For anyone who's been stymied by the level of sloth, bad looks and low intelligence of his fellow man (and woman), help is on the way. You can't change the tiresome creatures around you, but now you can describe them behind their backs with pleasing specificity. Yes, Insulting English is a user's guide to little-known and much-needed words that include: Gubbertush: Buck-toothed person Hogminny: A depraved young woman Nihilarian: Person with a meaningless job Pursy: Fat and short of breath Scombroid: Resembling a mackerel Tumbrel: A person who is drunk to the point of vomiting These and many other gems from our colorful mother tongue are collected on these pages. Now every gink, knipperdollin, and grizely dunderwhelp can be called by his rightful name.