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    L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue

    By Chronicle Books

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    A is for apple? B is for ball? Humbug! Forget about that hackneyed gobbledygook. In this lexicon oflinguistic delights, word lovers of all ages will discover that A is for alley-oop, B is for brouhaha, and L is for, well, lollygag ! Packed with quirky illustrations, fun trivia, and lists within lists, this is one humdinger of a dictionary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateJul 1, 2010
    ISBN9780811870771
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    • 4/5
      This list of unusual words and their definitions is an interesting collection of little-used or uncommon words with great strength, versatility, or oddity Though no author is listed, the editors ave taken care to include useful definitions and hlpful explanations of tough words. There is certain tongue-in-cheek humor that slips through as you read some of the examples: for the word "galavant" the entry reads "to travel around for pleasure; usually used in a negative way to accuse someone of being irresponsible, as in 'While you were out gallivanting, I was stuck here building this tandem bicycle by myself." Many other entries are similar, and a few of te alignments are flipped upside down (usually words that imply some kind of reversal like "contrariwise." The sidebars arent quite perfectly set apart, but I think that is purposefully done, as the artwork in the book contains a very unusual but charmingly quirky jaggedness to it. This book would work vey well in any language library as a treat for those who love words.
    • 4/5
      Some words are just more fun to say than others. Rutabaga, for example. Or pumpernickel.Somehow neither of these words made the cut for “L Is for Lollygag: Quirky Words for a Clever Tongue,” a charming dictionary of words that are a pleasure to pronounce. Many of these words, such as gobbledygook or humdinger, aren't even necessary. We have other, shorter, simpler words we could use. But, especially in the spoken word as opposed to the written word, brevity and simplicity are not primary objectives. More important, at least in casual conversation, is entertainment value.Comedians know this. Writers like Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll knew it as well. Yes, they were working with written language, but they knew their books would be often read aloud and enjoyed as much for the sound of the words as for their meaning. (In Carroll's case, sometimes the words didn't even have any meaning.) We might say the same thing about Dr. Seuss.Say aloud some of these words from “L Is for Lollygag:” cantankerous, dungarees, haberdasher, hullabaloo, peccadillo, plethora, rapscallion, rumpus, scalawag, serendipity, wisenheimer and Zamboni. Pleasurable words need not have several syllables. Even words like crux and rogue are included.I was surprised how often I thought of my mother while reading this book. I didn't realize it during my youth, but she must have loved the sound of such words as catawampus, conniption, gadabout, gallivant, gumption, kitty-corner and persnickety. All these words are in the book.If the words are fun, so are the definitions. Here's how this book defines amok: "going crazy or out of control, like children who've had too much sugar. People usually run amok because walking amok would take too long." With writing like that it's a shame Chronicle Books did not see fit to give the writers, Molly Glover and Kate Hodson, cover credit. Their names are listed, however, in small print, on the copyright page. To that I say fiddlesticks!