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Word Play

A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language

By (author) Gyles Brandreth
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, United Kingdom
Imprint: Coronet Books
Published: 6th Aug 2015
Dimensions: w 146mm h 232mm d 33mm
Weight: 508g
ISBN-10: 1473620309
ISBN-13: 9781473620308
Barcode No: 9781473620308
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Synopsis
'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun. Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and word-meister, Just A Minute regular, One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, founder of the National Scrabble Championships, patron of The Queen's English Society, QI, Room 101, Have I Got News For You and Pointless survivor - on an uproarious and unexpected magic carpet ride around the awesome world of words and wordplay. Puns, palindromes, pangrams, Malaprops, euphemisms, mnemonics, acronyms, anagrams, alphabeticals, Tweets, verbiage, verbarrhea - if you can name it, you should find it here, along with the longest, shortest, wittiest, wildest, oldest, latest, oddest, most interesting and most memorable words in the English language - the richest, most remarkable language ever known.

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Will amuse children aged five to fifty and beyond. * Times Literary Supplement *