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Paul Dickson
Paul Dickson is the author of more than 45 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he has written on a variety of subjects from ice cream to kite flying to electronic warfare, he now concentrates on writing about the American language, baseball and 20th century history. His... show more
Paul Dickson is the author of more than 45 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he has written on a variety of subjects from ice cream to kite flying to electronic warfare, he now concentrates on writing about the American language, baseball and 20th century history. His most recent titles include Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century and Slang: A Topical Dictionary of Americanisms.
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Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it 8 years ago
Another glossary type reference, but without the narrative hook that made Roger, Sausage & Whippet so very engrossing. This one is all about words coined, or first used by, authors. Shakespeare of course, although he doesn't have the showing you'd expect. A lot of words we take for granted toda...
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it 11 years ago
New Review! AUTHORISMS: Words Wrought by Writers http://tinyurl.com/mfr3ozt The story of English is complicated, made more so by the weird rules, the incomprehensibly vat vocabulary, and the magpie's glee English speakers take in vacuuming up words from every language that has a cool one or two ...
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