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Words Gone Wild: Fun and Games for Language Lovers
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Author
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Jim Bernhard.
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Publisher
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Skyhorse
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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5.75
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1.1
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ISBN
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9781616080143
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Pages/Publication Date
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248/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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21029
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Description
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Why does a match box? Because it sees a tin can. Full of jokes and twists of the tongue, this lighthearted yet scholarly guide to language from playwright, puzzle master, and 1950 National Spelling Bee runner-up Jim Bernhard offers examples from the bawdy to the literate, with a smidgen of historical and etymological scholarship. Puns from Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, the Bible, George S. Kaufman, and Groucho Marx vie with comical spoonerisms, droll malapropisms, witty anagrams, and humorous palindromes, as well as limericks, clerihews, crossword puzzles, acrostic puzzles, and other kinds of wordplay.
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