The Wordsworth Dictionary of Intriguing Words

If you love words, this is the book for you! If you play Scrabble, buy this book! Many words will be familiar ...most will be of unknown use by everyday standards.
It is a fun book with surprises about WORDS, meanings and their usage. There are many words left to discover that are not in this small book. However, this book will
consume most of your life to even remember half of it.

Qualche esempio dalla lettera “D”: dysania (somnabulism: difficulty in becoming fully awake after sleep), dypnophobia (phobias: fear of dinner conversations), Doramania (manias: abnormal interest in fur), dulocracy (government: by slaves or servants), Daphnomancy (“-omancy” words, laurel tree), Dysmorphosteopalinklasy (long medical terms: 23 letters), Da, De, Di (short words: of, of, gods), Drw, Dw, Dwr (archaic vowelless words), Dress (Acronyms: Drains Resources, Entailing Silly Sacrifices), Doundrins (food and drink: afternoon drinking), Duende (delightful words: the power to attract via personal charm). Un libro inutilissimo ma piacevole, con acrostici, anagrammi, antigrammi (funeral = real fun), cronogrammi, lipogrammi (Mary show more had a tiny lamb, it’s wool was pallid as snow – in cui manca sempre la lettera “e”), palindromi (A man, a plan, a canal: Panama), pangrammi (The quick brown fox…ma non solo), univocalici (Meg kept the wee sheep / The sheep’s fleece resembled sleet…). Serve a poco ma può piacere ai patiti della parola.
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