- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (11 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195312120
- ISBN-13: 978-0195312126
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 142,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
About the Author
Erin McKean is the Senior Editor for the Oxford University Press North American Dictionary Program and the Editor of Verbatim magazine. Roz Chast is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker and the author of more than five books of cartoons. Danny Shanahan is a staff cartoonist for the New Yorker and illustrator of numerous books, including The Dead Sea Scroll Palindromes.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
In fact, this is a combination of the previous two books plus more than 150 new words
19 April 2007
Format:Paperback
The previous reviewer stated that this title was the same as the first book in the series, Weird and Wonderful Words. In fact, this book is a compilation of BOTH books (Weird and Wonderful Words and MORE Weird and Wonderful Words) with the addition of more than 150 new words not found in either previous title, as well as two new essays.
Hope this clears up any confusion!
Hope this clears up any confusion!
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
different title, not quite the same book
18 Mar 2007
Format:Paperback
Buyer beware: this is exactly the same book (except for title) as "Weird and Wonderful Words", which is listed here as being by Simon Winchester but in fact is also by Erin McKean. It's an enjoyable book, but you wouldn't want to buy it twice thinking you were getting a sequel.
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CORRECTION:
My apologies to the beleaguered author - a more careful re-examination of the introduction does indeed disclose that this is a combination of the two previous books, and I'm sure it does include the additional new words. When I first opened it up, all the entries I looked at were repeats, so I jumped to a hasty conclusion.
I do think, though, that online buyers need an advisory on this, as some others might otherwise make the same mistake I did, of thinking that this one is a third book "totally" different from the first two.
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CORRECTION:
My apologies to the beleaguered author - a more careful re-examination of the introduction does indeed disclose that this is a combination of the two previous books, and I'm sure it does include the additional new words. When I first opened it up, all the entries I looked at were repeats, so I jumped to a hasty conclusion.
I do think, though, that online buyers need an advisory on this, as some others might otherwise make the same mistake I did, of thinking that this one is a third book "totally" different from the first two.
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