Let's discover F words
Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky has alerted me to the fact that Book
Closeouts,
here,
is offering the volume "Let's Discover F Words", a Troll Picture
Dictionary (for kids) by Robyn Supraner. This is the only
volume in
the series offered on closeout, but a glance at amazon.com shows that
the series covers the entire alphabet ("two volumes" means that there's
a volume on "Let's Discover
x
Words" and another on "Let's Discover More New
x Words"):
A (two volumes), B (two volumes), C,
DE, F, GH (two volumes), IJK, L (two volumes), M (two volumes), NO, PQ,
R, S (two volumes), T (two volumes), UV, WXYZ
I'd guess that the title of the F volume put a damper on sales.
Meanwhile, back in the adult world, new deployments of "the F word"
continue to come in. From the
Economist,
1/13/07, a leader on p. 13, "Clones to the right of me,
jokers to the left", begins:
There is something about the study of
embryonic stem cells that brings
out the "F" word. That word, unlike the embryonic cells
themselves, is nothing to do with reproduction. It is
"Frankenstein".
What next: ferrets, fisticuffs, fandango, Firbank, furlong, Fu
Manchu,...?
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Posted by Arnold Zwicky at January 15, 2007 12:45 PM