The Game of Words The Remarkable Exuberance of the English Language |
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| Author:
| Espy, Willard R. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57912-324-6 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books
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| Imprint: | Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc. |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $9.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionAttention 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.