The Superior Person's Book of Words

Hardcover, 176 pages

Published Nov. 5, 2001 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.

ISBN:
978-0-7475-5337-3
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This is quite an interesting book of obscure words. It's written more for entertainment rather than providing a dictionary with example usage or etymology. The idea of being superior by using words that people will not understand, or in some way to deliberately mislead seems both unkind and also doomed to failure if the intent were to bring lesser-used words back into circulation.

Subjects

  • Dictionaries
  • Humour
  • English
  • Language