Verbatim

Verbatim Ver­ba­tim From the bawdy to the sub­lime, the best writ­ing on lan­guage for word lovers, gram­mar mavens, and arm­chair lin­guistsErin McK­ean
Har­vest Books 2001
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A very inter­est­ing and enter­tain­ing col­lec­tion of arti­cles on lin­guis­tics, ety­mol­ogy, and gen­eral logophilia. The writ­ings range from seri­ous anthro­pol­ogy to wacky word­play. This book actu­ally made me laugh out loud on a num­ber of occasions.

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