THERE'S A WORD FOR IT!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life
Language: English
Published by Scribner, 1996
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- Title
- THERE'S A WORD FOR IT!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life
- Author
- Elster, Charles Harringto
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0684824558
- ISBN 13
- 9780684824550
- Item weight
- 15 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x9
There's a Word for It! will help you plug gaping holes in your vocabulary and apply vibrant color to the blank spots in your picture of the world. 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.
Get ready to dig into this delectable lexical feast, served up by the language connoisseur William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee."
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Review
-- Richard Lederer, bestselling author of "Fractured English"
"If the words in "Reader's Digest"'s 'It Pays to Enrich Your Word Power' aren't providing the challenge that your vocabulary-hungry mind needs, try "There's a Word for It."..Elster has collected...worthy words about all kinds of people and topics."
-- Judyth Rigler, "San Antonio Express-News"
"Those who devour words will feast on it....Elster aims to entertain, and he succeeds. He also excites curiosity about the language."
-- Diane White, Boston Globe
"Chock full of wonderful ways to talk about people, places, and things: words you never knew you needed -- until now."
-- Phyllis DeBlanche, San Diego Magazine
"There's a Word for It reminds us of the greatness and glory of our word-rich language. Charles Elster's logoleptic lexicon is a verbivore's paradise."
-- Richard Lederer, bestselling author of Fractured English
"Anyone who enjoys playing with the English language will find this compendium charming and at times hysterical."
-- Booklist
"If you've ever had a yen to out-Buckley William F. Buckley Jr., here's a brilliant chance to do so...Page after page, Elster amuses, entertains....And when it's all read and done, the reader will have gained a few lessons on life by observing the asides and comments that accompany the generally boisterous text."
-- Mae Woods Bell, Rocky Mountain Telegraph
"If the words in Reader's Digest's 'It Pays to Enrich Your Word Power' aren't providing the challenge that your vocabulary-hungry mind needs, try There's a Word for It...Elster has collected...worthy words about all kinds of people and topics."
-- Judyth Rigler, San Antonio Express-News
"This book will be in demand by all word mavens and language lovers....Elster plumbs the oceanic depths of the English language....His collector's collection of obscure and wonderfully exact words concentrates in turn on extraordinary words relating to health and medicine, love and sex, people, religion, politics, academia, and uncommon words for everyday things....The style of the essays is conversational, though it resembles a fevered all-night conversation with an amazingly learned and wildly obsessed friend."
-- Library Journal
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