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The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate by Eugene Ehrlich, Richard Lederer

kaikamahine's review

2.0

Dictionaries are always useful to have, kind of like having a color wheel in Photoshop instead of just a select square palette -- it gives you more options. I think my favorite part of this one, though, is the addendum under criterion warning (rather sarcastically) that people will "eagerly seize upon unfamiliar words and phrases, which somehow are thought to invest our thoughts with the appearance of learnedness."

Which is ... kind of the whole point of the book, isn't it?