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	• The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things Rod Evans Writers Digest Books, 2006 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Confound your friends!

It has never hurt anyone to expand their knowledge of language, and this book will certainly help those who so choose. Your friends won't understand anything you say! The book has been nicely produced with a velvet cover and gilded letters (I wonder where they got that idea?)Belongs on every writers bookshelf.

A logophile's delight!

You don't have to be a PYSMATIC LOGOMANIAC to enjoy this book, but it helps. You'll learn that Dolly Parton is BATHYCOLPIAN, that Osama bin Ladin is a CAITIFF, that H.Ross Perot is MACROTOUS, that H.L. Mencken truly was a NULLIFIAN, and that many lawyers engage in PLEONASM. The words in all caps are among the gems I discovered in this treasure-trove of "overly eloquent words for everday things," which includes a handy "reverse dictionary" in the appendix that enables even the most linguistically challenged reader to become erudite. Among my personal favorites in the book is KAKISTOCRACY (government by the worst people), an apt description of American politics today. I'm urging all my bibliophilic friends to buy this splendid book.

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Sesquepedalian Eloquence

The Guilded Tongue, by Rod Evans, is truly a verbal Temple of Venus, a wonder-sphere of verbal angels, a veritable batallion of shape-shifting powers generating ornamental delight that magically enchants the work-a-day world with its usual banal and caucaphonic emissions of brain-dead verbs, and tongue-tied adjectives, logostatic cliches, and tired idioms that constitute the bulk of most human talk. This beautifully-bound and thoughtfully laid out tome will equip one with circumlocutive skils enabling perfumed verbal fogs to roll off the tongue and stun ones rivals and enemies, or to empower and augment the language of love. Here truly are Apollo's lyre and Pan's pipes to warm an afternoon of love, to elevate conversation from the depths of bathos to the high sublimity of philosophical song. Say goodbye to the dingy world of witless verbal sobriety and become intoxicated with the nectar of these exotic word-flowers. Join the all-but-forgotten dance of the maters of verbal wit and demand to hear more refined speech than all the dictionaries of the world can pour forth, just as one might wish to eat finer bread than than wheat mills can produce, to wear finer clothes made from cloth that no spinning wheel can create. Thank you, Rodney Evans, whoever you are, for generously sharing what must have been decades of research in the lexifluous and recondite and rotting treasures in old books, dungeons, attics where time and language have stood still. A warning to the reader: read this book with caution--it has many secrets to tell, not all of them are drawing-room tame.

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Hilarious and educational

I loved this book. I learned so many words that I can remember because they are fun to use and useful in almost any situation in life. It was a great book and I recommend it to anyone that wants to extend their vocabulary.

If you're impressed by your own vocabulary ...

What a humbling experience! As one who has been an avid and faithful reader of, among others, both William F. Buckley and John Kenneth Galbraith, I've been a collector of unusual words for the past 35 years. So, when I received my holiday gift of "The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things", I thought that perhaps I might pick up a new word or two. Wrong! While I don't have the exact statistics (which is a bit surprising in itself, insofar as I'm a CPA by training), I'd speculate that 90% of the entries in this volume were foreign to me. So, if you enjoy stretching your brain a bit with words that go far beyond the obscure, have I got a book for you! I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Appendix of Web Sites for Word Lovers (a great resource), the Reverse Dictionary (very useful), and the quite luxurious velvet cover (so very appropriate).

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Join the ranks of the CLERISY

There are certain qualities that can set you apart from the crowd?like wearing the right clothing, jewelry, or shoes. But nothing draws attention or sets you apart like knowing and using a superior and aggrandizing vocabulary.

You?ll ascend to the uppermost ranks of literary intelligentsia once you acquire the grandiloquent terms in this lush volume. More than 500 entries help you replace common, everyday language with meretricious words guaranteed to make an indelible impression on your friends, co-workers, and family.

With The Gilded Tongue, you?ll never have to settle for plain, simple expression again.

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