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| The Million Word Crossword Dictionary
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Stanley Newman & Daniel Stark. Will Shortz, intro.
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| Publisher: Collins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780060517571. Daedalus Item Code: 30338 |
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| Newsday crossword editor Stanley Newman—world record holder for the fastest completion of a New York Times crossword—and United Feature Syndicate crossword creator Daniel Stark here ... (Read More)
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| Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
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Patricia T. O'Conner & Stewart Kellerman.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812978100. Daedalus Item Code: 31286 |
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| Do you cringe when a commentator pronounces "niche" as "nitch?" Do you get bent out of shape when someone writes "they" for a lone person of undetermined sex? Do you think British spellings are more ... (Read More)
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| Oxford Colour French Dictionary Plus: Third Edition
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Nicolas Rollin & Jean Benoit Ormal-Grenon, eds.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: flexi-binding.
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| ISBN: 9780199214686. Daedalus Item Code: 30725 |
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| Laminated and easily held in one hand, this is an eminently totable edition of the Oxford French Dictionary, with orange highlights for ease of use. Find English definitions for French words ... (Read More)
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| The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
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Mark Abley.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780618571222. Daedalus Item Code: 92002 |
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| The author of Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (a New York Times Notable Book and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year) here takes a look at the wild, ... (Read More)
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| The Shakespeare Miscellany
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David Crystal & Ben Crystal.
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| Publisher: Overlook. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781585677160. Daedalus Item Code: 22300 |
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| A champion of the English language (the author of How Language Works, The Fight for English, and The Stories of English) and his son, a Shakespearean actor, together present this ... (Read More)
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| Sloth: A Dictionary for the Lazy
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Jennifer M. Wood, ed.
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| Publisher: Adams Media. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781440528064. Daedalus Item Code: 30242 |
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| "Sloth (slawth), noun: Consistent aversion to exertion." No, don't get up; just relax, leave the work for tomorrow, and leaf at your leisure through this languorous dictionary, letting it define for ... (Read More)
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| Stokes Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles
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Thomas F. Tyning. Donald & Lillian Stokes, eds.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780316817134. Daedalus Item Code: 23385 |
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| Illustrated with naturalist drawings throughout, this guide tells you what to look for—and how to interpret what you see—when you observe frogs, salamanders, turtles, lizards, alligators, and snakes ... (Read More)
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| There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900
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Sol Steinmetz.
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| Publisher: Harmony. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375426179. Daedalus Item Code: 21093 |
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| From the turn of the 20th century to today, our language has grown by some 500,000 new words—at least, that's today's best guesstimate (1936). What accounts for this quantum leap ... (Read More)
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