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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Word Play: A Cornucopia of Puns, Anagrams and Other Contortions and Curiosities of the English Language

Word Play: A Cornucopia of Puns, Anagrams and Other Contortions and Curiosities of the English Language

Brandreth, Gyles

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ISBN10: 1473620295
ISBN13: 9781473620292
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: Oct 25 2016
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.'
Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun.

Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and word-meister, Just A Minute regular, One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, founder of the National Scrabble Championships, patron of The Queen's English Society, QI, Room 101, Have I Got News For You and Pointless survivor - on an uproarious and unexpected magic carpet ride around the awesome world of words and wordplay.

Puns, palindromes, pangrams, Malaprops, euphemisms, mnemonics, acronyms, anagrams, alphabeticals, Tweets, verbiage, verbarrhea - if you can name it, you should find it here, along with the longest, shortest, wittiest, wildest, oldest, latest, oddest, most interesting and most memorable words in the English language - the richest, most remarkable language ever known.

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