Mim Harrison: 2 books
Wicked Good Words
From Johnnycakes to Jug Handles, a Roundup of America's Regionalisms
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
How to sound like you're from here, no matter where you are in America
"Simultaneously full of witty asides and linguistic erudition, Wicked Good Words is one of those rare books that you will read too fast and will find yourself wishing you could read for the first time all over again."
-Ammon...
Smart Words
Vocabulary for the Erudite
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
How and where to use 500 of the words that make you sound more cultured, worldly, and downright smart.
Whoever said sounding smart had to be painful? It's all in how you acquire the "ten-dollar words" of English. Smart Words makes fast and smooth learning of words such as prelapsarian, sedulous,...