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Pages: 666 (Hardcover) Editor: Eben Upton ISBN: 0192801155 Pub: OUP Oxford Pub date: 2004-08-12 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15918 |
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Reader Reviews:
Get this one! (1/2 people found this helpful)
This is the one to get. Don't bother with cheaper ones. It's a reference book that doesn't mind being well thumbed. If only the other publishers realised that reference books have to be a sturdy piece of kit. This will be a constant companion for many years. Penguin lasted a year. Chambers lasted a few weeks.
A Rhyme Too Many? (15/19 people found this helpful)
While the book is very comprehensive its very comprehensiveness
counts against convenient use. If you're an amateur poet, you'd
do better with the Penguin or the Chambers. A rhyming dictionary
can only be suggestive - who wants ALL the possible rhymes for
a given word?
The Definitive Rhyming Tool? (35/36 people found this helpful)
This book is a wonder and seems to be the most comprehensive of its type on the market.
It's enduring attraction is that it promotes so many different contexts for rhyme - not just academic poetry but in jokes, song lyrics, photo-captions, speeches etc - that you may not be initially aware of. Unexpectedly for me it's a great "dip in" book.
As with all reference books this needs to be (and is) a sturdy hardback. How many others are?
Ultimately it's main worth for me is it's organisation. It's arranged by a large index at the back which is a list of alphabetical subjects, their exact rhymes are numerically systematised in the front section into groups of exact rhymes. Usefully this includes proper nouns (eg Robert di Niro = hero)and even more practically, each category is organised ALONGSIDE groups of near-rhymes giving you greater access to the comedic side of rhyming.
And that's just it - with such a large wordbank this is an unpredictably funny source of reference. One which is bound to increase in usuage once the lay-out is mastered.
You too can rhyme Somerset with Exocet!
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