Crazy English by Richard Lederer
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Crazy English by Richard Lederer
Fun with English language. Lederer books are the best the popular linguistics can offer.
A journalist, teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and public-radio commentator, Lederer ( Anguished English ; Get Thee to a Punnery ) again adroitly mixes instruction with hilarity by showing that English, though the richest and most widely used of all the world's languages, is "crazy." The text is a dazzling collection of anagrams, alliterations, idioms, illogical spelling rules (bough, ghost, honor, rhyme) and larky oxymora (Chaucer's classic "hateful good," today's "military intelligence," "postal service") . Verses, quizzes and anecdotes accompany Lederer's essays on "the antics of semantics," greatly expanding the pleasure of what he correctly claims is "the ultimate joy ride through our language." Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild alternates; author tour.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
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Added by: Mystika007 | Karma: 18.14 | Fiction literature | 14 April 2007 |
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 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
If you are crazy about
Star Wars you'll love this Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. Enjoy!
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