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Word Play: A Cornucopia of Puns, Anagrams and Other Contortions and Curiosities of the English Language
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Coronet
Publication date October 25, 2016
Pages 400
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781473620292
ISBN-10 1473620295
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $15.99
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'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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9781473620308 | details & prices | 368 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $29.99
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