The Game of Words: The Remarkable Exhuberance of the English Language - Hardcover

Espy, Willard R.

 
9781579123246: The Game of Words: The Remarkable Exhuberance of the English Language

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For language lovers who know that words are far too serious to be taken seriously, this book is an indispensable and entertaining survey of word games of all kinds, written by one of the mot successful words-gamesmen of our times. The book not only teaches us more than 200 ways to play with our words, but provides side-splitting examples of every game played well, including: Acrostics; Alliteration; Malapropisms; Acronyms; Euphemisms; Puns; Conundrums; Anagrams; Riddles; Cryptograms; Clerihews; Spoonerisms; Oxymorons; Lipograms; Rebuses; Parody; Palindromes; Pronounciations; Tongue-twisters

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For language lovers who know that words are far too serious to be taken seriously, this book is an indispensable and entertaining survey of word games of all kinds, written by one of the mot successful words-gamesmen of our times. The book not only teaches us more than 200 ways to play with our words, but provides side-splitting examples of every game played well, including: Acrostics; Alliteration; Malapropisms; Acronyms; Euphemisms; Puns; Conundrums; Anagrams; Riddles; Cryptograms; Clerihews; Spoonerisms; Oxymorons; Lipograms; Rebuses; Parody; Palindromes; Pronounciations; Tongue-twisters

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