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Crazy English : the ultimate joy ride through our language
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- Summary
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Demonstrates that logic is sometimes absent from the standard deviations in English usage and how language secrets are revealed in winks, allusions, sighs, and giggles.
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- Creator
- Richard Lederer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Pocket Books, [1989]
- Physical Details
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- 189 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0671689061, 9780671689063
- OCLC
- ocm20150288
- Also issued online.
- I: The strange case of the English language. English is a crazy language ; Confusable English ; Good grief! ; Sesquipedalian English -- II: The name is the game. What's your phobia? ; The secrets of "nym" ; Brand-new eponyms ; Janus-faced English ; A hymn to heteronyms -- III: Figuratively speaking. A visit to the language zoo ; You said a mouthful ; Violent English -- IV: Unmechanical English. Foxen in the henhice ; Tense times with verbs ; Spellbound -- V: The sounds of English. Sound and sense ; Beautiful English ; Alliteration strikes the nation ; Rhyme time -- VI: English at play. The play of words ; Anagrammatical English ; Doctor Rotcod's ailihphilia -- VII: The last word about words. The antics of semantics