There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life
A word lover's delight of unusual and unusually useful words and their definitions, There's a Word for It! offers a delectable lexical feast served up by the language connoisseur whom William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee". The book also contains a dazzling selection of light verse by such famous (and fabulous) scribes as Hogden Gnash, Anais Numb, and G.B. Pshaw.
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A word lover's delight of unusual and unusually useful words and their definitions, There's a Word for It! offers a delectable lexical feast served up by the language connoisseur whom William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee". The book also contains a dazzling selection of light verse by such famous (and fabulous) scribes as Hogden Gnash, Anais Numb, and G.B. Pshaw.
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