Word Fugitives
Subtitle: In Pursuit of Wanted Words
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780060832735
Subjects: Vocabulary -- Humor; English language -- Humor
Genres: Humor.
First sentence: Imagine being the first person ever to say anything.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Before the Beginning
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Our Unruly Inner Lives
pagenum: 25; title: A Roundup of Fugitives
pagenum: 31; title: Inner Lives Gone Bad
pagenum: 39; title: Phobiaphilia!
pagenum: 44; label: 2
title: Them
pagenum: 53; title: If These Are Answers, What Was the Question?
pagenum: 59; title: The Way They Do the Things They Do
pagenum: 63; title: Maim That Tune
pagenum: 66; label: 3
title: The Material World
pagenum: 73; title: Antiques or Novelty Items?
pagenum: 79; title: Just One Thing After Another
pagenum: 84; title: What ARE These Words?
pagenum: 91; label: 4
title: Tribulations
pagenum: 101; title: A Little Crop of Horrors
pagenum: 107; title: A Gallery of Bad Behavior
pagenum: 117; label: 5
title: May We Have a Word?
pagenum: 127; title: Twelve of One, A Dozen of the Other
pagenum: 132; title: Six Grizzled Fugitives
pagenum: 142; label: 6
title: Odds and Ends
pagenum: 155; title: Which Are Which?
pagenum: 160; title: Accurately Quoted
pagenum: 167; title: In Conclusion: Keepers
pagenum: 177; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 189