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Wouldn't you like to use proctomorph in your everyday conversation--or at least feel as if you could? How about singerie ? Or rememble ? Following the smash hit Weird and Wonderful Words , editor Erin McKean has dug deeper into forgotten corners of the dictionary gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than four hundred prime specimens (with pronunciations!), defined in a conversational style and perfect for adding to your own collection of favorites. Guaranteed to amuse and astonish, accompanied by full-page illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan, these words will appeal to logophiles everywhere. In addition to its wonderful offerings, the book also features a guide to finding new words, a guide to the best word websites, and an annotated bibliography of essential Oxford dictionaries. More Weird and Wonderful anopisthograph : something that has writing on only one side (usually paper, although you could pedantically use this for things like t-shirts or billboards). Anopisthography is the practice of writing on only one side of something, a policy disdained by those who know how to make that 1-to-2 button on the c

Who reads More Weird and Wonderful Words?

Author

Erin McKean; illustrations by Danny Shanahan

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195170573

Category

reference

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14