Lexicography
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
$24.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. ” –The Washington Post- Author: Koenig, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1501153641
- Language: English
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The Language of Tattoos: 130 Symbols and What They Mean
$30.00 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated guide delves deep into the meaning and significance of different tattoo symbols, exploring the rich cultural history around the world of this widespread form of body art. … [more below]
- Author: Munden, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0711267863
- Language: English
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Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fir
- Author: Fatsis, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0802165826
- Language: English
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Heavens to Betsy!: & Other Curious Sayings
$17.99 Add to cartHe’s as mad as a hatter!
Whether it’s like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we’ve never really known why … until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains m
- Author: Funk, Charles E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0060513314
- Language: English
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The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover
$14.99 Add to cartThis boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the author’s most erudite, outr?, and interesting words – from prehensile and sciolist to rubric and histrionic – complete with d… [more below]
- Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0156006162
- Language: English
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Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English
$24.95 Add to cartA spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms–for good or ill
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America–from French fries to Awes- Author: Yagoda, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691262292
- Language: English
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Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z
$24.99 Read moreDr Gregory Kenicer brings us a concise but through exploration of plants and their names in the Scots language through the ages. Presented as a dictionary, and covering a vast variety of flower, fungh… [more below]
- Author: Kenicer, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1910877441
- Language: English
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Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World (Book Lover Gifts, Illustrated Untranslatable Word Book)
$14.99 Read moreDiscover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who… [more below]
- Author: Mak, Yee-Lum
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1452125341
- Language: English
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Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined the Eng
$65.00 Add to cart“A delight”–Booklist
A richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing to the present day. Dictionaries are repositorie- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1567928072
- Language: English
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comes the wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the pre
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063292300
- Language: English
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
$24.95 Add to cartDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-rangin… [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0991118103
- Language: English
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
$29.99 Read moreFrom the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comes the wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the pre
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063292270
- Language: English
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
$18.95 Add to cartDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-rangin… [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0991118111
- Language: English
