"Like animals, plants and book reviewers, words can become extinct, but Grambs is here to salvage the most missed of the lexical dinosaurs."—Patricia Holt, Sa

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

A dictionary of the observable world features definition-first organization; passages from the writings of James, Updike, and others; and words concerning shape

Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects.

When one looks at the history of English Studies there has been a noticeable proliferation of research interests since the 1970s. As a result of such developmen