Publication

2009 - Pocket Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

52,750 words, Guess

Page Count

211 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC428/.002/07
  • LCCPE1095 .L37

Alternate Titles

  • Crazy English
  • Fractured English

Description

This volume contains two books. The author frolics through the logic-boggling byways of the English language, discovering the 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, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.

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