Weird and Wonderful Words
Author(s): Erin McKean
This title is a treasure trove of colourful, quirky, and unusual words, containing hundreds of definitions written in a clear and conversational style and full-page illustrations which offer a whimsical and comic view of the English language.
General Information
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- : Oxford University Press Inc
- : Oxford University Press Inc
- : 0.326
- : 01 November 2002
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Erin McKean
- : Hardback
- : Roz Chast
- : 144
- : cartoons, bibliography
More About The Product
this is a book that will enhance both your logodaedaly and your eutrapely. For all its nidgery appearance, it merits not a suirk but a place on the pluteus of your sitooterie Daily Express a fascinating new dictionary Daily Mirror
Erin McKean (Senior Editor, US Dictionaries Program) is the editor of the language quarterly Verbatim. Roz Chast (cartoonist) is the staff cartoonist for the New Yorker and author of more than five cartoon books.
