Compare prices before you buy. Amazing arcane information worked in to an easy, digestible read. A wordsmith's holiday. Subject not for everybody. It is one of the ironies of history that a lasting monument to the magnificence of the English language created in good part during Britain s hubris-laden Victorian era had as one of its main contributors an insane American army officer who murdered a poor brewery worker in London s tawdry Surrey side, a place where no Victorian gentleman or lady would be found er dead.
Some words are ancient and exist still.
Others are new and vanish like mayflies. Still others emerge in one lifetime, continue to exist through the next and the next, and look set to endure forever. Others deserve less optimistic prognosis. Yet all these types of words are valid parts of the English language, no matter that they are old and obsolete or new and with questionable futures . Professor is a quick read 240 pages.