The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionary

ISBN-13: 9780380713929 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 624 str.

Sue Young; S. Young

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An essential tool for writers, poets, punsters, lyricists, wits, and language lovers everywhere THE NEW COMPREHENSIVE AMERICAN RHYMING DICTIONARY is, by far, the sassiest, most fun, complete andup-to-date book of its kind on the market. This remarkablecompendium contains over 65,000 words, phrases, andcolloquialisms--a gold mine of rhyme certain to aid anddelight everyone who works with language, from the amateurpoet to the professional wordsmith.

• Why rhyme "moon" with "June..".when you can use "Brigadoon," "Daniel Boone," or "picayune" instead?
• A cornucopia of rhymes for exasperating, difficult-to-match words...such as "system," "hemophilia," and "Khrushchev."
• Easy-to-use and read, with entries arranged by sound rather than spelling.
• Authoritative and up-to-the-minute...including the latest in slang, idioms and buzz words.

Whether you're a composer searching for the perfect songlyric or a wit who revels in constructing limericks, here isyour key to a bold new world of creative cleverness-an idealreference book for the Cole Porter in all of us