Verbatim
By: edited by Erin McKean
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780712645973
Subjects: Language and languages
Notes: Originally published: San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Grammar and Other Lost Arts --; title: An Intolerant View of Intolerance  -- Laurence Urdang; title: Intolerable Intolerance, Redux  -- Erin McKean; title: Noun Overuse Phenomenon Article  -- Bruce D. Price; title: Pleonasties  -- Harold J. Ellner; title: What Did You Call Me? Names and Naming --; title: Unraveling the American Place-Name Cover  -- Frank R. Abate; title: Unofficial Sectional City Names  -- Frederic G. Cassidy; title: New Blood in the Namestream  -- John Tittensor; title: Onomastica Nervosa  -- Laurence Urdang; title: Lots of Englishes --; title: Sussex, Speak  -- Bel Bailey; title: Socko Names  -- George W. Turner; title: Galling Gallicisms of Quebec English  -- Howard Richler; title: English as she is spoke  -- Michael Gorman; title: Dictionaries and Their Makers --; title: Sexual Intercourse in American College Dictionaries  -- Sidney I. Landau; title: How Big Is Your Dictionary?  -- Robert Ilson; title: Eccentricity in English Lexicography  -- Elmer Suderman; title: The Seating of Zotz  -- Walter C. Kidney; title: Armchair Linguistics --; title: Self-Referring Words  -- Alexander J. Pollock; title: Nullspeak: A Question of Rotating Strawberry Madonnas  -- Steve Bonner; title: Polysemania, Semantic Taint, and Related Conditions  -- John Ellison Kahn; title: Tosspots and Wraprascals  -- Andrew E. Norman; title: Quasi Malediction: The Case of Linguistic Malentendu  -- D. G. Kehl; title: Slang, Jargon, and Other Limited-Range Vocabulary --; title: Lingua Collegiensis circa 1850  -- Charles Lafayette Todd; title: Slayer Slang  -- Michael Adams; title: Of Eating Rubber and Sno-Cones  -- Gerald Eskenazi; title: Fanguage  -- Greg Costikyan; title: Winking Words  -- Philip Michael Cohen; title: Clown Talk  -- Thomas H. Middleton; title: Mantic Mania  -- Robert Devereux; title: Identity and Language in the SM Scene  -- M. A. Buchanan; title: Other Languages (Just the Good Parts) --; title: Instant Welsh  -- Michael Vercambre; title: Never Ask a Uruguayan Waitress for a Little Box: She Might Apply Her Foot to Your Eyelet  -- John R. Cassidy; title: From Za-za to San-san: The Climate of Japanese Onomatopoeia  -- David Galef; title: Hocus Pocus  -- William Brashear; title: Where'd That Come From? Etymologies --; title: Our Playful Vocabulary  -- Burt Hochberg; title: On Again, Off Again, Finnigan  -- J. Walter Wilson; title: "My Name Is Hanes"  -- Gerald Cohen; title: On Blue Moons, and Others  -- Nick Humez; title: Words in Print, Words and Print: The Written Word --; title: The Twenty-third Psalm and Me, or Has the Nightingale Become a Crow?  -- Grace Hollander; title: The "Wicked" Bibles, or, Let Him Who Is without Sin among You Cast the First Line of Type  -- Ray Russell; title: Red Pants  -- Robert M. Sebastian; title: Funny Words --; title: British Football Chants  -- Pete May; title: Learn to Spike Lunars  -- Robert Archibald Ford; title: The World according to Student Bloopers  -- Richard Lederer; title: When Everything Was Everything  -- Joe Queenan; title: Irish Bulls in Sundry China Shops  -- Robert A. Fowkes; title: Needless to Say  -- Peter Sypnowich; title: Wordplay and Word Games --; title: Wordplay  -- Gary Egan; title: A Quick Fox Jumps over the Cwm Fjord-Bank Glyph Biz  -- Russell Slocum; title: The Cryptic Toolbox  -- Harry Cohen; title: Defile Your Records!  -- Laurence Urdang; title: Review of The Mammoth Book of Word Games  -- Willard Epsy; title: Pairing Pairs  -- Laurence Urdang; title: Not in Polite Company --; title: Meretricious Words, or the Quean's English  -- Bryan Garner; title: Thunderboxes and Chuggies  -- Daniel Balado-Lopez; title: Assing Around  -- Jessy Randall and Wendy Woloson; title: Deciphering the Four-Letter Word in a Medieval Manuscript's Satire on Friars  -- Carter Revard; title: The Ineffable F -- r-Letter Word  -- Benedict B. Kimmelman; title: Revising the F-Word -- Jesse Sheidlower.