Grandiloquent Words - Jason Travis Ott

Grandiloquent Words

A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions
Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2023
Countryman Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-68268-799-4 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrises the boggles of our palaver*
Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of the website Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, antiquated argot from myriad epochs and lexemes for venturesome bibliophiles. Featuring a short, insightful history of the mania for obscure utterances, Grandiloquent Words offers scores of preternatural terminologies for you to ingurgitate and brandish with aplomb for countless occasions. Bask in cataracts of mundane morphemes, bookish locutions, beef-witted blatteroons, corporeal catastrophes, playful patois and jolly jubilations. These always-extra expressions encompass timeless topics and modern phenomena, painting a group portrait of our foibles and delights. Replete with pronunciations, etymologies, examples and whimsical illustrations, the entries both edify and entertain.

*This rare collection of definitions celebrates the marvels of our language

Jason Travis Ott founded Grandiloquent Word of the Day as a community for logophiles to enjoy extravagant, fanciful words for use in everyday life. That assemblage has waxed to more than 325,000 followers. A graphic designer and artist, he lives in Alexandria, Kentucky, with his wife.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 225 line drawings
Verlagsort Woodstock
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 218 mm
Gewicht 409 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-68268-799-6 / 1682687996
ISBN-13 978-1-68268-799-4 / 9781682687994
Zustand Neuware
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