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Words Gone Wild - Fun and Games for Language Lovers

Jim Bernhard

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

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Summary

A treasury for anyone who enjoys puns, puzzles, palindromes, and all kinds of wordplay!   This enlightening and entertaining guide to humorous language is chock-full of comical spoonerisms, droll malapropisms, witty anagrams, limericks, tongue-twisters, and more. It also provides a bit of historical and etymological education, with puns from Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, the Bible, George S. Kaufman, and Groucho Marx.   Occasionally bawdy and always playful, Words Gone Wild is a fun-filled volume for anyone who loves language—and laughter.  
Available since: 06/01/2010.
Print length: 256 pages.

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