Have you ever found yourself grasping in vain for that ideal descriptive word lost somewhere within the misty recesses of your vocabulary? Or felt frustrated that an oddly shaped structure or pretty
We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that
A book obsessed with capturing the world in words, The Describer’s Dictionary is an indispensable reference tool that writers have turned to over the past twenty years in pursuit of clarity and honest
A cornucopia of spelling challengesA- from the simple to the vexingA-for good, better, and exceptional spellers.So You Think You Can Spell? is a handy way to go one on one, pencil to paper, against h
