The Chambers Dictionary (Thumb-Index)

Chambers

ISBN 10: 0550102418 / ISBN 13: 9780550102416

Editore: Chambers, 2011

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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

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• Titolo: The Chambers Dictionary (Thumb-Index)
• Editore: Chambers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0550102418
• ISBN 13: 9780550102416
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Used; Very Good

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Riassunto

The dictionary of choice for word lovers and puzzle fiends, The Chambers Dictionary delves deep into all the glories of the English language, covering weird and wonderful words like spoffish, jobernowl, mullligrubs and humdudgeon, all the while ensuring it covers the latest developments in English. Now in its 12th edition, the dictionary has been updated to include words and expressions that have entered the language in the four years since the last edition was published. In addition, it now includes a Word Lover's Miscellany with list upon list of words to appeal to the English language addict:

- words to cherish

- words that are extinct

- words that merit rescue

- words to use in Scrabble(R) and other word games

- words to watch

- collective nouns

- useful similes

Recensione

"Chambers is the one I keep at my right hand" (Philip Pullman)

"The Chambers Dictionary stands out like a baroque mansion in a city of faceless concrete" (Melvyn Bragg)

"To look up a word in Chambers is to be able to unpack its meaning and also to marvel at its compactness . . . . Chambers is an open door to words at their wittiest, most rooted, most revealing, and most powerful" (Ali Smith)

"This fossicking for undiscovered jewels is, of course, one of the chief pleasures of a dictionary . . . A page a day keeps the doddypolls at bay " (Jeremy Paxman)

"Chambers is the kind of dictionary with which people who like to play with words begin to feel an affinity. Its vocabulary is so vast and variegated that crossword fans find it a valuable resource." (livemint.com, The Wall Street Journal)

"We shall not rest until every Independent reader is saying to him or herself, 'I wonder what 'humdudgeon' means. I must just go and look it up.'" (John Walsh, Irish Independent)

"Scrabble players have traditionally used The Chambers Dictionary . . . . Never has cursing been so creative" (The Guardian)

"Chambers is the best one-volume dictionary from the wrong side of the Atlantic" (First Things Journal)

"authority and reliability" (Telegraph)

'The 12th edition of The Chambers Dictionary is the most useful and diverting single-volume work-hoard available. It's somehow good to know that a zizel is a chipmunk' (The Telegraph, Mark Sanderson's Book of the Year)