Maxwell Nurnberg

Armed with a red pencil, scissors, tape, and index cards, author Maxwell Nurnberg spent years scouring The New York Times, the The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, with the aim of creating a new kind of vocabulary book. The result is a veritable panoply of words -- drawn from the real-life context of written and spoken language.

Two language experts, map your way to greater vocabulary power via history, folklore, and anecdote, as they tell all about words--how they began, how they developed, and exactly what they mean. Here's an exhilarating, easy way to learn a word...and never forget it! With games, puzzles, exercises, and whole battery of challenging tests.

This is the entrancingly entertaining yet amazingly effective guide that shows you how to know the meaning of words that you have never seen or heard before, learn the history of words so that they come alive for you, master an invaluable and permanent technique of word-viewing within 30 days. This is the one book that makes you love to learn.

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Guidelines designed to help parents in making a selection preface a dictionary providing information on the origins, meanings, and use of more than four thousand names

Sounds like magic? It is, in a way – it’s the magic of words. This fascinating book is filled with word games, tricks, and puzzles to perplex your parents, baffle your teachers, and astonish your friends. Best of all, this book is guaranteed to keep you entertained, amused, and amazed. Fun With Words is a lively introduction to the intricacies and idiosyncracies of the English language. Covering grammer, spelling punctuation, and vocabulary, it is as educational as it is entertaining. Ted Schroeder’s delightful line drawings are in perfect harmony with the lighthearted tone of the text.

If all you know about a word is its spelling and its meaning, you sometimes don’t know the half of it. As a matter of fact, you don’t know its parents are, who its relatives are, or what pictures may be hidden somewhere within it.” Do you know how a flower, this sign *, a spaceman and an accident are all related? The flower is an aster which is Greek for star. The star-shaped sign is an asterisk. Another name for spaceman is astronaut, literally a sailor among the stars, and an accident is a disaster-something that happens contrary to the “lucky” stars under which you were born.

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