Word Play

\'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. Σελίδες: 368, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1025, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm