Overview

Browse through 5,000 of Samuel Johnson's extraordinary contributions to the English language. You know you're not looking up ordinary definitions when you read that a lexicographer is "a writer of dictionaries: a harmless drudge". Many of the words have gone completely out of fashion (abecedarian, billingsgate, clapperclaw, yux, and zeugma), but once you see their meanings, you may want to bring them back.

ISBN-13

9780304347056

ISBN-10

0304347051

Weight

0.66 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 1.50 x 7.50 In

List Price

$19.95

Format

Paperback

Pages

480 pages

Publisher

UNKNO

Published On

1996-06-01



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