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That should be a word : a language lover's guide to choregasms, povertunity, brattling, and other much-needed terms for the modern world

That should be a word : a language lover's guide to choregasms, povertunity, brattling, and other much-needed terms for the modern world

Book 2015

Finally there’s a word for it: Fidgital-excessively checking one’s devices. Martyrmony-staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular ?That Should Be a Word? feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick’s wittiest wordplays-more than half of them new-arranged in ingenious diagrams...