Wordwatching: Breaking into the Dictionary: It's His Word Against Theirs

ISBN-13: 9781905264612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str.

Alex Horne

Opis

Alex Horne loves words. He loves them so much, in fact, that he decided to invent his own--to create a brand new verbal concept and successfully implant it into the English language, and the" Oxford English Dictionary." But breaking into the dictionary was going to take more than just a gentle word in the ear of the "OED"'s editor, as Alex soon discovered. Evidence was required--Alex needed proof that his word was in print and used by more people than just him and his mom. He needed, to use the dictionary's word, a "corpus" of examples, so a corpus he resolved to create. And he gave himself 1,000 days in which to do it. This is the story of what happened next. Did Alex get a word in the" OED"? What is a pratdigger? Are you already using one of Alex's words without realizing it? You won't regret spending your hard-earned honk on this hugely entertaining book full of wordy trivia and funny tales of verbal invention.