The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits!

The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With More Than 400 Perplexing Words to Test Your Wits!

Hardcover

30 Apr, 2019

By Jane Solomon (By (author)), Louise Lockhart (Illustrated by)

What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. ...

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ISBN-10:

1786038110

ISBN-13:

9781786038111

Publisher

Frances Lincoln Ltd

Dimensions

12.30 X 10.10 X 0.60 inches

Language

English

Description

What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words.

Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! You can master them with the simple, easy-to-understand definitions and pronunciations written by lexicographer (yes, that's in there too!) Jane Solomon. Fun, colorful illustrations add whimsy to the pages.

Some jobbernowls say dictionaries are anachronistic, or even obsolete, but it's kenspeckle to real bibliophiles that those vociferous ninnyhammers are just metagrobolised by the plethora of portmanteaus, neologisms, and jargon they offer. Next time you find yourself wrangling with one of these ultracrepidarians, no need to imagineer a sockdolager: just show them this book.

This captivating dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:1786038110

ISBN-13

:9781786038111

Publisher

:Frances Lincoln Ltd

Publication date

: 30 Apr, 2019

Edition

:New edition

Sub-Category

: Reference - Dictionaries

Format

:Hardcover

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

No. of Units

:1

Dimension

: 12.30 X 10.10 X 0.60 inches

Weight

:953 g

Editorial Reviews

'a fantastically fun family book'

--Let Them Be Small

About the Author

Jane Solomon is a lexicographer based in Oakland, California. She spends her days writing definitions and working on various projects for Dictionary.com. She's a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, the group that decides what new emoji pop up on our devices. Jane has a twin sister who is also a lexicographer.

Louise Lockhart is an illustrator living in an old mill in a small town in England. She spends her days creating designs from little paper cutouts and line drawings. Her books include The Dictionary of DifficultWords (published in 2019 by Frances Lincoln Children's Books) and her clients include: Heal's, Mini Boden, Flow Magazine, Anthropologie, The Independent, Anorak Magazine, Mollie Makes Magazine, Donna Wilson, Graniph, Little Otsu, and Liberty.

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