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The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon

Karen Elizabeth Gordon




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 | #1519593 in Books |  1997-08-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.00 x.56 x5.00l, | File type: PDF | 176 pages

||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fun Dictionary|By Ronka|Another of Gordon's terrific books for writers. I have given it as a gift several times over the years. Highly recommended for fun research/learning.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A fun read..|By Teafran|Reading this book will increase both your vocabulary and your ability to phras|.com |Pretty little novelty vocabulary books often provide unimaginative, unpoetic definitions for strange and beautiful words that one could never imagine actually using in a sentence. Karen Elizabeth Gordon's Disheveled Dictionary is quite the opposite

"What on earth does lagniappe mean? A sluggard who lies around till noon? A she-wolf of Anapurna? A car that demands heavy pampering?" In fact, none of the above. But one can find this Creole French word delectably defined in THE DISHEVELED DICTIONARY, which does for vocabulary what Gordon's cult classic THE WELL-TEMPERED SENTENCE did for punctuation and THE TRANSITIVE VAMPIRE did for grammar. THE DISHEVELED DICTIONARY takes a voluptuary's approach to language, off...

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