The Endangered English Dictionary

Author: David Grambs
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0393316068

The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot

"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs. Download The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. -Patricia Holt, San Francisco ChronicleWe often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear.

This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an ind Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction Patricia Holt, San Francisco ChronicleWe often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words remain. The price we pay for such convenience is the thousands of delightful words we never see or hear.

This book is an effort to save some of those words applicable to everyday life and countless word games from extinction. The resultant treasure trove of exotic verbal creatures is an ind

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