Bibliograph

Crazy English, the ultimate joy ride through our language, Richard Lederer

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Crazy English, the ultimate joy ride through our language, Richard Lederer

Language

eng

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illustrations

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crazy English

Responsibility statement

Richard Lederer

Sub title

the ultimate joy ride through our language

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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