Top products from r/logophilia

We found 15 product mentions on r/logophilia. We ranked the 15 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/pleasedothenerdful · 2 pointsr/logophilia

H. L. Mencken. He was an early 20th century newspaper writer/extreme logophile who wrote with great wit and acerbity, and only the most dedicated of logophiles will make it more than a page between dictionary references. He named a collection of his writings A Mencken Chrestomathy, which should provide an indication of his dedication to vocabulary.

u/Siddhartha_90 · 1 pointr/logophilia

Ran into it while reading A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life


>Five or six hundred years ago, places like Gresham Street in the City, Clerkenwell Green and Drury Lane used to be known as 'cat streets' and were overrun with them. These strays are the flotsam and jetsam of the city, running around fighting for survival on a daily basis.


Excellent book btw, do get one and check out these uplifting videos on youtube too.

u/Son_of_Kong · 6 pointsr/logophilia

Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words. It's a slim volume, but it covers all the but the most obscure usage cases. Especially useful if you need to know things like the difference between enormity and enormousness (personal pet peeve).

There's a chapter in Strunk and White on commonly misused words and phrases, if you just need to brush up on the basics.

u/quietly_bi_guy · 1 pointr/logophilia

As in a styptic pencil, which is used to stop bleeding when one cuts oneself while shaving. They sting a bit, but are pretty much necessary if using an old-fashioned straight or double-edged razor.

u/t3yrn · 4 pointsr/logophilia

My mother got this for me last Christmas

http://www.amazon.com/Going-Hell-Hen-Basket-Malapropisms/dp/1250066271

It's a great book to just pick up and thumb through from time to time!

u/skullkid250 · 1 pointr/logophilia

Someone gave me this book, I haven't had I chance to go through it any more than a brief skimming but it's cheap and probably has a few good ones In it.

http://www.amazon.com/2000-Most-Challenging-Obscure-Words/dp/0883658488

u/Nourn · 1 pointr/logophilia

My girlfriend bought me, a number of years ago now, Reading the OED by Ammon Shea. Here's a link. I enjoyed it quite a bit, although keep in mind it is a non-fiction book so there might be a taste difference there.

u/demoran · 1 pointr/logophilia

I really enjoyed watching Fune wo Amu. The book was one of Amazon's monthly freebies a while back, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

u/reallifepixel · 1 pointr/logophilia

Listening to Being Nixon: A Man Divided and his Checker's Speech was described as being mawkish.

u/aztec_mummy · 1 pointr/logophilia

I used that word (well almost) in my 2nd ever reddit post in /r/fifthworldproblems . Back then entries with obscure words were all the craze.

I leaned very heavily on my copy of Dictionary of Uncommon Words by L.Urdang for that one!

u/robertskmiles · 3 pointsr/logophilia

Makes sense, since ille is the third person pronoun in Latin.

It's also used as the definite article colloquially, as in Winnie Ille Pu.

Edit: By the way Julius Caesar is terrible for this, his whole De Bello Gallico is written in the third person, which makes parts of it really hilarious. There's this bit where he's invading Britain, and they leave their ships at anchor at low tide, and then the tide comes in and the ships are all pinned to the sea floor by their anchors so they sink. And there's this whole spiel about how "Caesar could not have known about the tides" and "Caesar couldn't possibly be blamed" for losing the majority of his ships to a dumb mistake and leaving his troops stranded in hostile territory without any supplies for the winter. And you feel like saying "We know it is you writing this, Caesar. Stop pretending to be impartial, Caesar. Your name is right on the front of the book dude.". It's fair enough, tides in The English Channel are much bigger than the tides in the Med, but we know he was using auxiliaries recruited from Gaul, who must have known about the tides. I don't know what's funnier, the idea that the auxiliaries warned them about the tide and were ignored, or the idea that the auxiliaries failed to mention it in a spectacular act of trolling.