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Edition · 2016-08-25 · Softcover

Word Play

GBGyles Brandreth
2016
year of publication
1
pages
English (United Kingdom)
language
Softcover
cover
Publisher
hodder_paperbacks
ISBN-13
978-14-7362-029-2
EAN
9781473620292
Publication date
2016-08-25
Book
Word Play · 4 editions
The publisher on this edition

'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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