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Can I read Amazing Words: an Alphabetical Anthology of Alluring, Astonishing, Astounding, Bedazzling, Beguiling, Bewitching, Enchanting, Enthralling, Entrancing, Magical, Mesmerizing, Miraculous, Tantalizing, Tempting, and Transfixing Words on EtoBox?

Amazing Words: an Alphabetical Anthology of Alluring, Astonishing, Astounding, Bedazzling, Beguiling, Bewitching, Enchanting, Enthralling, Entrancing, Magical, Mesmerizing, Miraculous, Tantalizing, Tempting, and Transfixing Words by Richard Lederer is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Amazing Words: an Alphabetical Anthology of Alluring, Astonishing, Astounding, Bedazzling, Beguiling, Bewitching, Enchanting, Enthralling, Entrancing, Magical, Mesmerizing, Miraculous, Tantalizing, Tempting, and Transfixing Words about?

With fascinating etymologies and letter patterns of more than 400 everyday words, bestselling language writer Richard Lederer offers insights into the most bedazzling, beguiling, and bewitching words in the English language. Readers will discover why William Shakespeare may be hiding in the Old Testament; why "run" is the longest word in English; how people's names become common words; and how the Bible, mythology, the sea, the land, show business, and games spark words and phrases in everyday vocabulary. Chock-full of transfixing word histories, magical letter play, and hilarious puns, Amazing Words , now in its second edition, is an essential book for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores.

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Author
Richard Lederer
Publisher
Marion Street Press; Marion Street Press, LLC
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781936863303
Category
reference
Subjects
Language Learning, Grammar, Dictionaries & Phrasebooks, Language
Rating
4.6 / 5 (23 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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