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"Get a daily dose of wordplay all year. 366 days worth of poems, puns, and puzzles (includes February 29 for leap years). Features anagrams, acrostics, palindromes, and pangrams. The best of Espy's two classic almanacs."

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Willard R. Espy was one of the most successful word-players and punsters of our time. After careers in reporting, promotions, and public relations, Espy finally committed to his word obsession in the late '60s, with a column in the British humor magazine Punch. The Game of Words was the first of more than a dozen delightful books on words, including the bestselling An Almanac of Words at Play. In 1999, at the time of his death at 88, the New York Times remembered him as, "An inveterate punster who collected clerihews, dabbled in double dactyls, limned lipograms, mixed macaronics and exulted in anagrams, homonyms, oxymorons, palindromes and spoonerisms... It wasn't so much that he has a way with words as that words had their way with him, or as he once put it, 'Words choose their lovers arbitrarily.'"

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  • PublisherMerriam Webster
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0877791457
  • ISBN 13 9780877791454
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
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  • Number of pages384
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