500 Beautiful Words You Should Know

(Hardback)

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CRESTFALLEN at CHICANERY and CIRCUMLOCUTION Have no TRUCK with TOMFOOLERY and TRUMPERY Or OMNISCIENT about OBLOQUIES and OPSIMATHS

Whether youve answered yes, no or sorry, I didnt catch that, 500 Beautiful Words You Should Know is for you. It offers words that flow EXQUISITELY off the tongue; words that are just perfect for their meaning, like the lazy-sounding SLOTH and the heavy-footed GALUMPH; words that will make you sound clever, like DEUTERAGONIST and LETHOLOGICA; and words that are just fun to say, like LIQUEFACTION and LUXURIATE.

Itll tell you where they come from, how to use them and whether youre likely to BAMBOOZLE anyone whos listening to you. With occasional special features on great words for colours, words from the Classics and words that make you laugh, this is a book to delight BIBLIOPHILES and BLATHERSKITES alike.

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Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'),and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe.