A Browser's Dictionary: A Compendium of Curious Expressions & Intriguing Facts - Softcover
Delightful explorations of the roots (and branches) of words and phrases.
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Esteemed poet, translator, critic, and author of children's books, John Ciardi devoted a good part of his later literary career to the "word rambles" that, collected in his Browser's Dictionaries, take us on a wonderfully winding path through the landscape of language. His three compendiums of curious expressions and intriguing facts are enlivened by a reader's inquisitiveness and a writer's ingenuity. In these pages you'll discover the bitter herb at the root of sardonic, the Biblical fly in the ointment, what provides the pleasure in happy as a clam, and hundreds of other insights into our linguistic heritage. Also available in Common Reader Editions: A Second Browser's Dictionary and A Third Browser's Dictionary.
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- PublisherAkadine Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1888173203
- ISBN 13 9781888173208
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages429
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