November 18, 2024
BOOK REVIEW

Comments for: Word columnist in search of clever coinage

WORD FUGITIVES: IN PURSUIT OF WANTED WORDS, by Barbara Wallraff, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 192 pages, $14.95. Let’s suppose that you are chortling over someone’s boast about a visit to a posh resort. You may or may not know that both “chortle” and “posh” are… Read More

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