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The riveting and not-so-riveting ruminations of several loquacious vocabulary afficionados.
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Some Favorite Word-Nerd-Type Books
- The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations by Charles Harrington Elster
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
- English from the Roots Up
- A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary by Kenneth Sisam and J.R.R. Tolkien
- The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
- The One-Minute Philosopher by Montague Brown, Ph.D.
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- What's in a Chinese Character by Tan Huay Peng
- words and The Word: notes on our Catholic vocabulary by Christopher Derrick
- A variety of Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Thesauri
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and this, like automobile (the standard non-English word for car, as in German/Polish "auto" or Scandinavian "bil") is a greco-latin composite ...
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