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This volume contains two books. The author frolics through the logic-boggling byways of the English language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.
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Crazy fractured English: two bestselling books in one
2009, Pocket Books
in English
1439158711 9781439158715
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Table of Contents
[1.] The strange case of the English language. English is a crazy language
Good grief!
The department of redundancy department
Confusable English
Sesquipedalian English
[2.] The name is the game. What s in a name?
What s your phobia?
The secrets of ?nym?
Brand-new eponyms
Putting words in their places
Janus-faced words
A hymn to heteronyms
Retro-active words
[3.] Figuratively speaking. A visit to the language zoo
You said a mouthful
Violent English
[4.] Unmechanical English. Foxen in the henhice
Tense times with verbs
Spellbound
[5.] The sounds of English. Sound and sense
Beautiful English
Alliteration strikes the nation
Rhyme time
[6.] English at play. The play of words
Anagrammatical English
Doctor Rotcod s ailihphilia
[7.] The last word about words. The antics of semantics.
[1.] School daze. From the mouths of babes
Losing the human race
Science friction
Stop the music!
The revised nonstandard bible
Pullet surprising literature
[2.] It's a blunderful life. Poly-tickle speeches
A guide to sportspeak
Blessed bloopers
Gavel to gabble
Premedicated humor
Laugh insurance
Signs of trouble
[3.] Cold off the press. Headline headaches
Banner boners
Galley oops!
All the nudes fit to print
We stand korrected
Classified classics
[4.] Clear as muddle. Fractured english abroad
Brand new bloopers
Misdirected directions
Mrs. Malaprop lives!
When metaphors collide
How's that again?
[5.] Mechanical breakdowns. Under a spell
Back to grammar school
Those dang(ling) modifiers
Typographical terrors.
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Two titles in one volume.
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