Chrysti The Wordsmith: Digestible Dictionaries - 2

Good day were lovers this is Christie the wordsmith. Do you read dictionaries for pleasure. Well stand by for a review of a trio of dictionaries that read like potato chips taste one bite and you must have more. First up is Mrs. Burns dictionary a collection of 6000 of the weirdest words ever brought into captivity. The editor Mrs Byrne aka Joe Sci-Fi Heifetz Byrne investigates such linguistic curiosities as Pozzi wallah British slang for a jam lover Mirken false pubic hair Scotto phobia fear of darkness. Howard Rheingold has published a lexicon called they have a word for it. A collection of untranslatable words and phrases from foreign languages such as sin talk bong on the Indonesian term for the phenomenon of awakening with a start and the German noun cuts and or a severe hangover. In they have a word for it. Editor Howard Rheingold outlines the Chinese word Madhya literally to curse the street or

to verbally direct socially unacceptable anger at the road in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang Ed. je lighter takes a scholarly approach to the study of our nation's casual language. Lighter scrutinizes the slang the words chump airhead buck naked and thousands more. I'm Christie the wordsmith for the titles of these delightful dictionaries. Go to the bibliography section of my website wordsmith radio dot org. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry Web dot com.