Crazy English: the Ultimate Joy Ride through Our Language

Lederer, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0671689061 ISBN 13: 9780671689063

Published by Pocket Books, New York, New York, 1989

Language: English

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Crazy English: the Ultimate Joy Ride through Our Language

Publisher

Pocket Books, New York, New York

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0671689061

ISBN 13

9780671689063

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Hardcover

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First Edition.

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Fine

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Fine

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Explores the intricacies and idiocies of the English language, presenting palindromes, phobias, quizzes, riddles, and other challenges of the language

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A journalist, teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and public-radio commentator, Lederer ( Anguished English ; Get Thee to a Punnery ) again adroitly mixes instruction with hilarity by showing that English, though the richest and most widely used of all the world's languages, is "crazy." The text is a dazzling collection of anagrams, alliterations, idioms, illogical spelling rules (bough, ghost, honor, rhyme) and larky oxymora (Chaucer's classic "hateful good," today's "military intelligence," "postal service") . Verses, quizzes and anecdotes accompany Lederer's essays on "the antics of semantics," greatly expanding the pleasure of what he correctly claims is "the ultimate joy ride through our language." Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild alternates; author tour.
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