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Thingamajigs and Watchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things
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Thingamajigs and Watchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things

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Have you been guilty of catachresis at work? Have you defenestrated your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles stuck in your diastema? Scratching your occiput now?*

Rod L. Evans’s Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark.

Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined - your brain will thank you.

* catachresis- strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word;
* defenestrate- to throw out a window;
* phloem bundles- stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana;
* diastema- the gap between teeth in a jaw;
* occiput- the back part of the head or skull

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Date
7 June 2011
Pages
224
ISBN
9780399536724

Have you been guilty of catachresis at work? Have you defenestrated your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles stuck in your diastema? Scratching your occiput now?*

Rod L. Evans’s Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark.

Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined - your brain will thank you.

* catachresis- strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word;
* defenestrate- to throw out a window;
* phloem bundles- stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana;
* diastema- the gap between teeth in a jaw;
* occiput- the back part of the head or skull

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Date
7 June 2011
Pages
224
ISBN
9780399536724