new words

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

"Poetically defining emotions we all feel but don't have the words to express, the creator of the popular online project of the same name invites readers on his epic quest to fill the gaps in the language of emotion"--OCLC.

When he decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Examines 2000 new words and phrases that have been added to the English language over the last decade.

Contains definitions for 300 everyday words that are not found in most dictionaries to date.

Four letters escape from a book to form different words.

When he decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries which define a variety of unusual words in the English language.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the linguistic and historical origins of over 25,000 English words.

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly move beyond his control.