David Grambs: 3 books

Book cover of The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
by David Grambs
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1997

"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French...
Book cover of So You Think You Can Spell?

So You Think You Can Spell?

Killer Quizzes for the Incurably Competitive and Overly Confident

by David Grambs, Ellen S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

A cornucopia of spelling challenges—from the deceptively simple to the truly vexing—for good, better, and exceptional spellers (or those who want to be). So You Think You Can Spell? is a handy way to go one on one, pencil to paper, against hard, harder, and heartless words. The challenges...
Book cover of The Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations (Expanded Second Edition)
by David Grambs, Ellen S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014

The unmatched guide—and perfect gift—for stymied scribes and working wordsmiths everywhere, now expanded and updated. A singular and indispensable reference tool, The Describer's Dictionary—now expanded and updated—has served for over twenty years as the go-to resource for writers who...
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