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A fascinating journey inside the mysteries of the English language celebrates the rich diversity of speech and the overall sensuality of language, both in the most obscure of words and in the most common.
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon is the author of the classic and comic reference books The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The New Well-Tempered Sentence, and Torn Wings and Faux Pas. Her wanderlusting fiction includes The Ravenous Muse, The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales, and Paris Out of Hand. She lives in Berkeley, California and Paris.
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Gordon, who has achieved cult status with whimsical references like The Well-Tempered Sentence (1983), defines an array of daffy, delicious words.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0395689902
- ISBN 13 9780395689905
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages162
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