That Should Be a Word A Language Lover's Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World

Name: That Should Be a Word A Language Lover's Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780761182689

ISBN-10: 0761182683

ISBN-13: 9780761182689

Edition: 2015

Authors: Lizzie Skurnick

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Finally there's a word for it: Fidgital--excessively checking one's devices. Martyrmony--staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular "That Should Be a Word" feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick's wittiest wordplays--more than half of them new--arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships.Complete with definitions,? pronunciations, usage examples, and ?illustrations, That Should Be a Word ?features words on our obsession with ?food: carbiter--one who asserts that? someone else cannot be hungry.…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/7/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 4.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Lizzie Skurnick is an author, a columnist, and the editor in chief of Lizzie Skurnick Books, an imprint that brings back YA classics for teen-lit fans. She has also written ten books for teens. A contributor to NPR, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications, she is the author of Shelf Discovery, a memoir of teen reading inspired by her "Fine Lines" column on Jezebel.com. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.