{"id":55,"date":"2007-12-14T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2025-07-06T07:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T11:35:59","slug":"weird-and-wonderful-words-erin-mckean-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2007\/12\/weird-and-wonderful-words-erin-mckean-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird and Wonderful Words &#8211; Erin McKean, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delightful and fascinating, with wonderful cartoons by Roz Chast. The brillian Erin McKean, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbatimmag.com\/\">Verbatim<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erin_McKean\">rock-star lexicographer<\/a>, gives just the right amount of information on each word&#8212;sometimes tantalizing, sometimes thorough&#8212;to make the book easy to read cover-to-cover, as well as fun to dip into. Essays on linked words (beginning with Z, relating to pigs, for diseases) are sprinkled in. Word stuck in my head now: mammothrept, a spoiled child (from &#8220;raised by one&#8217;s grandmother&#8221;). <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delightful and fascinating, with wonderful cartoons by Roz Chast. The brillian Erin McKean, editor of Verbatim and rock-star lexicographer, gives just the right amount of information on each word&#8212;sometimes tantalizing, sometimes thorough&#8212;to make the book easy to read cover-to-cover, as well as fun to dip into. Essays on linked words (beginning with Z, relating to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}