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This is REALLY Food for "thought..." (Reply to this comment)
by kengland4
Thanks for bringing this book to "light." I love this kind of stuff, and I can't get "alliophage" out of my head." I already have the NY Times Book of Uncommon, blah, blah, blah (can't remember the rest), but it's about 50% medical/biological terms that are familiar to a person of scientific bent, or way easier to figure out--just from the etiology, roots, etc. I WILL get this, at some point.
KEvin
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Jan 09 '09
9:31 pm PST
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I don't know about this one. (Reply to this comment)
by dianapinions
You said: ". . .you will impress your friends, amaze your colleagues and baffle your enemies with this witty, charming, and clever little book"
As much as I enjoy "words as toys", I'd be afraid that I'd, instead baffle my friends and turn them into baffled enemies.
I always enjoy your books about words, tom.
Diana
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Oct 20 '07
10:43 am PDT
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I can't hardly wait.... (Reply to this comment)
by jlava73
....to use some of my newly learned words in public.
Cool review!
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Oct 16 '07
6:30 am PDT
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Great, offbeat pick "nonpareil" that I have noted... (Reply to this comment)
by NFP
...for the holidays. It appears to be a nonparagoned aggregation of idiosyncratic periphrasis the prolixity of which borders on the tautological.
Congratulations. nick
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Oct 15 '07
11:32 am PDT
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not an abecadarian review! (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
I will remember that word and maybe check out this cool book.
Jan
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Oct 12 '07
10:25 pm PDT
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I won't use these words only because... (Reply to this comment)
by popsrocks,  in Books
I won't remember the words and if I did I wouldn't know how to pronounce them and if I had to write them, I couldn't spell anyway.
Soooo!
Thanks for a fine review.
pops
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Oct 12 '07
12:00 am PDT
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