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The disheveled dictionary : a curious caper through our sumptuous lexicon / Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Karen Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- English language.
- Vocabulary.
- Genre:
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 162 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
- Summary:
- The Disheveled Dictionary takes a voluptuary's approach to language, carousing in a wanton world of words and their multiple and mischievous uses. Favorite characters from earlier books appear in cameo, including Yolanta, Jonquil Mapp, cowboys with lingerie, and assorted royal riffraff, who join in adumbration with the Grim Reaper, a reluctant baba, the contralto Constanza Zermattress, and other inspired creations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0395689902
- OCLC:
- 36501223
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