Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language

Name: Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
Brand: Hodder & Stoughton
SKU: 9781473620292
Price: 15.73 EUR
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By (author): Gyles Brandreth

'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.

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Product Details

Weight: 258g
Dimensions: 130 x 195mm
Publication Date: 25 Aug 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781473620292

About Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth is a writer performer former MP and Government Whip now Chancellor of the University of Chester and probably best known these days as a reporter on BBC1's The One Show and having been a regular on Radio 4's Just a Minute. On TV he has featured on Have I Got News For You QI Room 101 Countdown and This is Your Life. As a journalist he writes for the Telegraph and Daily Mail and is a columnist for The Oldie. The founder of the National Scrabble Championships his books about words and language include four best-sellers The Joy of Lex Word Play Have You Eaten Grandma? and Dancing by the Light of the Moon. His novels include seven Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as his detective and he has published two volumes of diaries and two acclaimed royal biographies. In 2020 he published The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes.