"Absquatulate" and many more "tall" words are elaborated on in Thomas Pyles’s marvelous book "Words and Ways of American English", New York, NY : Random House, 1952. (Cf. chapter 6, "Some Stylistic Characteristics: Tall Talk, Turgidity, and Taboo".)
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"Absquatulate" and many more "tall" words are elaborated on in Thomas Pyles’s marvelous book "Words and Ways of American English", New York, NY : Random House, 1952. (Cf. chapter 6, "Some Stylistic Characteristics: Tall Talk, Turgidity, and Taboo".)
May 16, 2009