The Game of Words

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Bramhall House, 1972 - 279 sider
Puns, cliches, tongue-twisters and spoonerisms--from the acclaimed author of An Almanac of Words at Play comes a witty and wonderful look at the worlds of words. Line drawings. Wings

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A. E. Housman A. P. Herbert acronym Alexander Woollcott alphabet American anagram ANSWERS OVERLEAF Arthur Guiterman Author unknown Brer Fox Brer Rabbit called Carth century Clerihews cliche CONTINUED OVERLEAF cried cryptogram dear Delilah dialect Dictionary Dorothy Parker Dutch examples eyes Fraffly French Game of Words girl Guiterman hair Heywood Broun Homonym Lexicon horse Irish jargon John ladle rat rotten lady language Latin leedle letters lipogram live Mary meaning Miss never night Non-U Ogden Nash onagers palindrome Pheelistins phrase Pidgin Pig Latin play poem poet rat rotten hut rhyme Robert Robert Benchley Semson sad Shakespeare sound spelling story Superghost Tarantara There's thing thou Tom Swifties Turn twine twist univocalic verse vowel W. R. E. ANSWER witt woman wordplay write wrote

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Om forfatteren (1972)

The late Willard Espy wrote more than fifteen books on language & other subjects. His works include "An Almanac of Words at Play", "The Garden of Eloquence", & "Have a Word on Me".

Bibliografisk informasjon

TittelThe Game of Words
ForfatterWillard R. Espy
Utgave2, illustrert, nytrykk
UtgiverBramhall House, 1972
ISBN0517177846, 9780517177846
Lengde279 sider
  
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