Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsense A Compiled Compendium of Repetitive Redundancies
by Kallan, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375423524
- ISBN 13
- 9780375423529
- Seller
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Pantheon. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0375423524 . 0.7 x 6.3 x 5.5 Inches; 160 pages; Tautology—<br>A word or group of words that unintentionally repeats its meaning.<br><br>When was the last time you entered your PIN NUMBER into the ATM MACHINE? Or longed for the PERFECT UTOPIA? Using unnecessary words can make written and spoken language a DISORGANIZED MESS, but it’s not just STUPID IDIOTS who do so. We’re all guilty, and this irreverent collection of tautologies catalogs our most common redundancies and wittily defines them. A FUNNY COMIC, for instance, is “one who’s employed”; a BLACK CROW is “the outcast in those large albino flocks”; and a SURVIVING WIDOW is “the last one standing in an all-widow game of Russian roulette.”<br><br>Beautifully designed and illustrated with comically apt reproductions by the nineteenth-century artist George Cruikshank, <i>Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsense</i> is a welcome antidote to a growing tendency in contemporary usage—and the perfect book for grammarphobes, word geeks, and language lovers alike. .
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- Bookseller
- Hammonds Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84530
- Title
- Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsense A Compiled Compendium of Repetitive Redundancies
- Author
- Kallan, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375423524
- ISBN 13
- 9780375423529
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 0375423524
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime True;
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