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Loading... Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words:…by Josefa Heifetz Byrne
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. longest word in the English language, and other cool words. A must for Scrabble. (  ) stunik | May 28, 2009 |  hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, (hip-o-pot-e-mon-stroses-kwi-pe-da-li-en), adj. pertaining to a very, very long word. (  ) Porius | Oct 27, 2008 | Here at last is a REAL dictionary for those of us who have a taste for those beautiful obscure words. English majors, crossword lovers, trivia freaks, or just those that have a LOVE for the written word will pass many an amused hour rifling through the pages of this wonderful lexicon. HIGHLY recommended. ( )2  PandorasRequiem | Dec 29, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0806504986, Paperback)First it must be known that all 6000 weird words lovingly compiled by Mrs. Byrne are "real" English words, legitimized by at least one major dictionary. That said, the inclusions are delightfully ludicrous, unfailingly obscure and often sadly missing from common parlance. The English language seems the poorer without "furfuraceous" (covered with dandruff), "omphaloskepsis" (meditation while gazing at one's navel) or "blabagogy" (a criminal environment). It's the most addictively interesting dictionary imaginable.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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