Crazy English

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MASTER WORDSMITH
RICHARD LEDERER
HAS DELIVERED HIS TOUR DE FARCE: A DAZZLING ROMP THROUGH THE ODDITIES OF OUR MOTHER TONGUE.
CRAZY ENGLISH
In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway, play at a recital and recite at a play? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries,and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet.You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language (including lame ducks who rule the roost in this rat race of a dog-eat-dog world), feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.
Full of stories, poems, interviews, quizzes, and edifying challenges, CRAZY ENGLISH is perfect laugh-out-loud entertainment, guaranteed to keep you figuratively glued to your seat while you... Tovább

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MASTER WORDSMITH
RICHARD LEDERER
HAS DELIVERED HIS TOUR DE FARCE: A DAZZLING ROMP THROUGH THE ODDITIES OF OUR MOTHER TONGUE.
CRAZY ENGLISH
In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway, play at a recital and recite at a play? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries,and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet.You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language (including lame ducks who rule the roost in this rat race of a dog-eat-dog world), feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.
Full of stories, poems, interviews, quizzes, and edifying challenges, CRAZY ENGLISH is perfect laugh-out-loud entertainment, guaranteed to keep you figuratively glued to your seat while you fall heels over head in love with our loopy language.
"If I bad been given tbis book to read in bigb school or college ! would bave grown up dunking of my own langui^e as a ma^c moving sea of possibilities and not as a corset for my mind. The final paragraph ought to be read in every English class in the land and the book ought to be set alongside The Elements ofStvIe by Strunk and White as an equal classic!'
—Robert Fulgbum Vissza