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Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits (Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Rod L. Evans Ph.D.
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    224
    Publisher:
    Penguin Publishing Group (June 7, 2011)
    Language:
    English
    Audience:
    General/trade
    ISBN-13:
    9780399536724
    ISBN-10:
    0399536728
    Weight:
    5.8oz
    Dimensions:
    4.5" x 7.95" x 0.59"
    File:
    RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260405T170753_155746836-20260405.xml
    Folder:
    RandomHouse
    List Price:
    $24.00
    Country of Origin:
    United States
    Case Pack:
    60
    As low as:
    $18.48
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-RH
    Discount Code:
    A
    QuickShip:
    Yes
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Tarcher
  • Overview

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

    Rod L. Evans's Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark.

    Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined-your brain will thank you.

    *catachresis: strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word;
    *defenestrate: to throw out a window;
    *phloem bundles: stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana;
    *diastema: the gap between teeth in a jaw;
    *occiput: the back part of the head or skull