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| Author | : Charles Hope |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 2016-03-05 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : 9781742034034 |
Words are wonderful. They can play tricks on the brain and trip up the tongue. They can be easy to spill yet difficult to spit out. They can cause magic and mayhem, pleasure and pain, and fun and frustration. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of words.
| Author | : Erin McKean |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0195159055 |
Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.
| Author | : Erin McKean |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2006-10-23 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0199886032 |
Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
| Author | : Phil Cousineau |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2010-03-15 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1573445509 |
Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book — it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.
| Author | : DK |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2015-09-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1465449078 |
The bizarre beasts, incredible places, and peculiar phenomenons featured in this mind-blowing compendium are not just really weird - they're really real! With more than 125,000 copies sold worldwide, this wacky encyclopedia explores our world's most exciting oddities. Did you know there's a plant that eats mice? Or that you can dip your toe in a rainbow-colored river? From fiery tornadoes flying across the sky to huge sinkholes eating up the earth, each example is illustrated with jaw-dropping images and handy fast facts that provide the explanations behind the stories. Whether it's geography, people, places, animals, plants, or weather, Strange But True! is the ideal book for curious young minds who are fascinated by our weird and wonderful world.
| Author | : Mitchell Symons |
| Publisher | : Zest Books ™ |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2019-08-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1541582128 |
Did you know that ‘Almost’ is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order ? Or that ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren’t actually flies, they’re beetles? From information about words and their uses, to useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, bizarre test answers and more, The Weird World of Words is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language—and will have you hooked from the very first page.
| Author | : Stephen Wildish |
| Publisher | : Summersdale |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-09-08 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 9781849539197 |
This super stylish book, packed with weird and wonderful visual information about everything, from how to make the perfect cup of tea to a statistical breakdown of the hokey-cokey, is guaranteed to entertain and help you look at things in a completely new way.
| Author | : Paul Hellweg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : 9780715390399 |
| Author | : Sarah Lundon |
| Publisher | : Quadrille Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019-10-15 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 9781787134720 |
Scandinavians are cooler, sexier, and more stylish than the rest of us. They have a higher standard of living, greater economic opportunity and equality, the world's best restaurants, and moody TV dramas involving murders and sweaters. But did you know, amidst the obsession with hygge, IKEA, and lagom, that Scandinavian sayings are absolutely BIZARRE?! Take the Swedish 'Skita i det blåa skåpet', which roughly translates as 'You've done a poop in the blue locker' ('You've really messed things up now'). Or, in Norway, 'Født bak en brunost': 'He was born behind a brown cheese' (this chap is a bit slow on the uptake). In Denmark you might say instead: 'Han har roterende fis i kasketten' (he's got rotating crap in his cap!). This witty, enlightening book will give you 50 phrases you never knew you needed in your life, explaining their origin and literal translations, with fun color illustrations throughout.
