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Rain Taxi reviews Wajnryb
One of my favorite Cambridge books I’ve read in the past couple years is Ruth Wajnryb’s You Know What I Mean?. Wajnryb is an Australian language expert who parses the slipperiness of meaning in general.
A Place for “Ruthful”
Ruth Wajnryb is WORDS columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her new book, You Know What I Mean? plumbs the depths of language, and the shifty, slippery meanings of our words. Here, a meditation on her own first name.
Although you probably have less reason than some to look up ‘ruth’ in the dictionary, doing so [...]
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