A Miscellany for Word Lovers

Resumen del libro

More than 100 vocabulary-building quizzes make up the core of the book, with shorter sections on: the fascinating origins of words; quotes and misquotes; slang, dialects and secret languages; unforgettable adverts, famous lines from Novels and movies; newspeak, basic English, spelling reform; malapropisms, politicians' blunders and 'mispeakings'; mnemonics and other memory joggers; palindromes and anagrams; and semaphore. Morse, tic-tac, hand gestures and other ways of speaking without words Entry after entry explores the byways, oddities and curiosities of the English language.