Wye's Dictionary of Improbable Words brings together nearly 4,000 unusual and fascinating words that defy convention, offering a vast sampling of our living language at play. As our standard dictionaries scramble to catalog and thereby legitimize our growing vocabulary, Wye's Dictionary offers the casual word gamer and language lover a cutting edge collection of new words. Examples of usage abound-as old as the Bible and as current as blog postings-grounding extraordinary terms in ordinary contexts. Myriad genres are represented, from literary classics to dramatic plays to whimsical fantasies, as well as the diverse worlds of science fiction, romance novels, children's stories, historical and military accounts, graphic novels and comic books, travel reports, news articles, magazine features, poetry, song lyrics, birdwatching guides, hymns, and how-to manuals.
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CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as "America's most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation." He has been called a "language fanatic" by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, and a "cult hero" by Publisher's Weekly. An eccentric scholar, Conley's ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the "virtual pet" in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular "Tamagotchi" in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley's website is OneLetterWords.com.
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CRAIG CONLEY has been called "a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure" (Clint Marsh), "America's most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation" (Encarta), a "language fanatic" (Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams), and a "cult hero" (Publisher's Weekly). An eccentric scholar, Conley's ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the "virtual pet" in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular "Tamagotchi" in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley's ONE-LETTER WORDS: A DICTIONARY is published by HarperCollins, and his MAGIC WORDS: A DICTIONARY is published by Weiser Books.
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cigarette break, cloud atlas, ghost cats, heart seizure, new world blackbirds, bird behavior, teach your child, noncommittal mutter, brrrrrrr brrrrrrrr, brrk brrk, talking vacuum cleaner, shooing sound, populated place, someone whose mouth, pfft pfft, bzzz bzzz, visual poem, spiritual dragon, chk chk, incomprehensible utterance, questioning sound, hhh hhh, glowing yellow eyes, rrrrr rrrrr, intermittent stream Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central African Republic, Kaichi Satake, Mike Cannell, Tony Abbott, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Falcon Twin, Brenden Mecleary, Craig Robson, Junji Ito, Birds of Southeast Asia, South Park, Burkina Faso, James Joyce, Edwin Mullhouse, The Martian Chronicles, Tony Harris, Field Guide, Steven Millhauser, Ray Bradbury, Star Wars, Ian Sinclair, Birds of Southern Africa, Birds of Panama, Solomon Islands Browse Sample Pages:
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cigarette break, cloud atlas, ghost cats, heart seizure, new world blackbirds, bird behavior, teach your child, noncommittal mutter, brrrrrrr brrrrrrrr, brrk brrk, talking vacuum cleaner, shooing sound, populated place, someone whose mouth, pfft pfft, bzzz bzzz, visual poem, spiritual dragon, chk chk, incomprehensible utterance, questioning sound, hhh hhh, glowing yellow eyes, rrrrr rrrrr, intermittent stream Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central African Republic, Kaichi Satake, Mike Cannell, Tony Abbott, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Falcon Twin, Brenden Mecleary, Craig Robson, Junji Ito, Birds of Southeast Asia, South Park, Burkina Faso, James Joyce, Edwin Mullhouse, The Martian Chronicles, Tony Harris, Field Guide, Steven Millhauser, Ray Bradbury, Star Wars, Ian Sinclair, Birds of Southern Africa, Birds of Panama, Solomon Islands Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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