The Other Dictionary
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Iced-inkLots of word plays
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Introduction - what's it all about?
Many English dictionaries have been compiled over the years, each one adding to the vast knowledge of our language and enhancing our understanding of the words which make up our vibrant and ever-changing vocabulary. This dictionary is like no other in the history of the English language. It is the result of painstaking and in-depth research into previously unknown aspects of a body of English vocabulary. This research has uncovered new meanings and interpretations of established words and terms which expand their richness and versatility.
The entries in the dictionary, when properly used, will open up new horizons and possibilities for you to incorporate these meanings into your everyday spoken and written repertoire. Perhaps they will even inspire and encourage you to discover new meanings of already established terms. So, why The Other Dictionary? Simple. Every dictionary is based on the same type of word meaning. You can look at them all and you will find more or less the same analysis. When you look in this dictionary, however, you will encounter a whole new level of meaning, recorded nowhere else. Eventually, it will become just the other dictionary that you consult when you need a new meaning for an old word.
So let the words roll over and trip off your tongue. Muse on the enigmas each entry will present to you. Open your mind to a whole new existential plane of verbal vistas; engross yourself in subtle nuances of meaning and the mature semantic equivalents of what passed for the apogee of puerile humour that you experienced in your pre-teen years.
This website gives you a sample of the more than 1000 definitions in the full dictionary. You can buy it as a paperback, or download it as either an e-book or app from itunes, and relieve the boredom of that interminable daily trek to work. Perplex and tantalise your fellow travellers in equal measure as you titter and guffaw out loud into the trundling silence of the 8.15 to Waterloo. Let it be your companion in the smallest room, under your pillow, in your back pocket, anywhere where you can escape your humdrum pointless existence and brighten up the 364 days of no sun in our sceptred isle.
If you ever find that you’re at a loose end with nothing better to do - the rain’s pouring down, the TV’s rubbish, the news is awful - then just pick up the book, your e-reader, ipod or iphone and read a couple of entries to brighten up your day. You can repeat them to your friends and family to impress them with your quick wit and erudition. Delight your work colleagues with your brilliant wit and creative genius. You never need tell them that you got it from this dictionary. It can remain your and my little secret.
So, browse, skim, muse, and think, but above all - enjoy. Get it - you won’t regret it.
Marc Loewenthal, London, 3 March 2009
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