The Superior Person's Complete Book of Words

Name: The Superior Person's Complete Book of Words
Brand: David R. Godine Publisher
SKU: 9781567925906-G
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By Peter Bowler

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What Bowler manages to do in this omnium gatherum of over 1,000 words that all of us have (very) occasionally heard but have no idea how to use, is not only to provide their definitions (easy enough) but also to offer, for the first time, practical advice on how to use these words in real-life situations""to confound your friends, irritate your enemies, and impress your superiors. Thus the reader will not only learn the meaning of aprosexia, but also how best to use it when filling out their sick leave application form. Sample sentences, in comprehensible and often hilarious prose, are given for every word providing a verbal arsenal potent enough to "confuse, deter, embarrass, humiliate, puzzle, deceive, disconcert, alarm, insult (and occasionally compliment) everyone" with relative impunity. Learn only a hundred or so of these and confirm the author's ambition to give you, his readers, "a more finely tuned engine of the language they speak, so they more readily assert their linguistic superiority over their fellow travelers at the traffic stops of life." And there's still more: anecdotes of eccentric scholars, unbelievable tales of the cupidity and stupidity of the rich and famous, examples of idiot conceits and further curiosities of the so-called intellectual life. Now, all of this in one elegant softcover volume, with flaps, an unbelievable bargain at $24.95.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 384
Release Date:: 2016-10-20
Publication Date:: 2016-10-20
Publisher:: David R. Godine Publisher
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1567925901
ISBN13:: 9781567925906
Weight:: 355 g
Height:: 134 cm
Width:: 208 cm
Thickness:: 27 cm

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