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From: cdl@mplvax.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: collectible words
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 23:54:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 23:54:55 1985
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Summary: 

A quick raid of the bookshelf turns up the following:

collective nouns:
	An Exaltation of Larks	James Lipton, Grossman Publishers 1968

assorted words ( books by Willard Espy):
	The Game of Words			Bramhall House, 1972
	An Almanac of Words at Play		Clarkson N. Potter 1975
	O thou Improper, thou Uncommon Noun	Clarkson N. Potter 1978
	Another Almanac of Words at Play	Clarkson N. Potter 1980
	Have a Word on Me			Simon & Schuster 1981

words from nature:
	Pedigree	Stephen Potter & Laurens Sargent
						Taplinger Publishing, 1973

mostly word games (two by Gyles Brandreth):
	the Joy of Lex				Wm. Morrow & Co, 1980
	More Joy of Lex				Wm. Morrow & Co, 1982

books I can't find this instant include
	Oddities & Curiosities of Language	Bombaugh, pub. by Dover
	something by Stephen Barr of Woodstock, NY
		(frequent correspondent of Martin Gardner)

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	carl lowenstein		marine physical lab	u.c. san diego
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