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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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The Game of Words: The Remarkable Exhuberance of the English Language
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc, 2003
ISBN 10: 1579123244
ISBN 13: 9781579123246
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The Game of Words: The Remarkable Exhuberance of the English Language
Published by
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc, 2003
ISBN 10: 1579123244
ISBN 13: 9781579123246
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Attention language lovers: prepare to be taken prisoner. Willard R. Espy, word gamester extraordinaire, has put together more than 200 sublimely satisfying diversions -- including acrostics, clerihews, epigrams, cryptograms, spoonerisms, palindromes, puns, and much, much more. Presented here are the wildest array of tongue twisters, brainteasers, and other mind-benders new and old, along with notes on their histories, tips on how to play them or solve them, and page after page of mind-boggling challenges you won't find anywhere else. It is a celebration of the energy, wit, flexibility, and fun of the English language by its most ardent aficionado. Seller Inventory # CIN1579123244G
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