The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary by John Simpson

The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary

John Simpson

400 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative slow-paced
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Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions -- and a great many more --...

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