# Word Play

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- Authors: [Gyles Brandreth](https://www.bookquiver.com/gyles-brandreth)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-08-06

## Description

'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.

## Editions

### Word Play

- Publisher: hodder_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-14-7362-029-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-08-25
- Language: en_GB

### Word Play

- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7362-837-3
- Published: 2015-09-24
- Language: en_GB

### Word Play

- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7362-047-6
- Published: 2015-09-24
- Language: en_GB

### Word Play

- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7362-031-5
- Published: 2015-08-06
- Language: en_GB