Download or read book Shallow Water Dictionary written by John Stilgoe and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shallow Water Dictionary is both a celebration of the richness of our vernacular language and a lament on its passing and with it, the passing of the words we need to understand our shallow water regions, once the primary landscape of America and now facing extinction, both physical and linguistic. This small book is an intriguing and valuable addition to our knowledge of a changing landscape. Literary, etymological, historical, and vernacular investigations of such varied terms as guzzle, creek, and chartreuse, Stilgoes definitions are lyric explanations of words whose original meanings have been eroded by time.