Superior Person's Little Book of Words

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Peter Bowler

Thrillers & Suspense

Robert Hale, Ltd.

'Words are not only tools; they are also weapons' The secret to being a truly Superior Person is to use really superior words. More impressive than a top hat, much more effective than a fist-fight, here are five hundred words to help you wiggle out of sticky debates, deal with obnoxious dinner guests and fill in sick leave application forms with panache. Impress your friends, amaze your colleagues and baffle your enemies with this witty, charming, and clever little book.

The Superior Person's Second Book of Words

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

BLOOMSBURY

Why say 'willy-nilly' when you could say 'nolens volens'? Peter Bowler's third collection of verbarian exotica aims to fortify your vocabulary and allow you to assert your ascendancy 'at the traffic lights of life', possibly. Along with practical definitions for words like haptephobia (fear of being touched) and oscitancy (yawning), Bowler relates cheerful anecdotes of eccentric scholars, idiotic concepts, oddities of the intellectual life and the odd deliberate mistake.

The Superior Person's Book Words 3

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

A dictionary with a wide range of definitions of precise but neglected words chosen to enrich one's vocabulary.

The Superior Person's Book of Weird and Wondrous Words

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

David R. Godine, Publishers

Completely Superior Person's Book of Words

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

A collection of unusual and amusing words.

The Three Superior Person's Books of Words [Illustrated]

David R. Godine, Publisher

The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words

In his Superior Person's Book of Words and its two sequels, the incorrigible Peter Bowler did his best to spread confusion throughout the English-speaking world by encouraging his trusting readers to use obscure, sometimes preposterous, words for no other purpose than to impress (or conveniently befuddle) their peers. But he recently experienced a "Road to Damascus" conversion. Confronted by the damage being inflicted on his beloved Mother Tongue by the pretentious, euphemistic, obfuscatory, and self-aggrandizing cant now running amok in our military, corporate, and academic arenas, he is mounting a one-man campaign to return us to sanity.The Superior Person's Field Guide is a call for the return to simple, straightforward words that say what they mean and mean what they say. Most of us know that "downsizing" means that you're about to be fired, but have you ever heard its business-speak cousins "offshoreable" or "cash-flow episode"?With his customary wit and clear-sightedness, Bowler cuts a swath through the thickets of popular jargon, casting daylight on such linguistic deformities as "interrogate with prejudice" (that is, torture) and "unforeseen geological event" (a mining disaster). Impatient with euphemism, he examines ugly specimens forced into bloom in the interests of political correctness "waitperson," "developmentally challenged" designed to help the squeamish avoid direct confrontation with the simple facts of sex and disability. Here are circumlocutions that make the disagreeable seem agreeable, the unacceptable acceptable, and here is Peter Bowler, as always, trying to set the record, and the English language, straight.

The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive & Downright Dangerous Language

Leslie Cabarga

University of New South Wales Press

The Superior Person's Little Book Of Words

Mandarin

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