Much ado about english : up and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language /
Todd, Richard Watson
Much ado about english : up and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language / Richard Watson Todd. - London : Nicholas Brealey Pub., 2007. - viii, 148 p.: 22 cm.
Includes index
Whether your interest is neologisms or pleonasms, sobriquets or oxymorons, tongue-twisters or palindromes, this book strolls through the vast landscape of the English language and wanders down its most illogical, peculiar and idiosyncratic byways. It ranges from where words have come from to why spelling and pronunciation don`t match up.
English
978-1-85788-372-5
Lexicology
English language--Humor
English language--Etymology
English language--Usage
English language--History
422 T56m
Much ado about english : up and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language / Richard Watson Todd. - London : Nicholas Brealey Pub., 2007. - viii, 148 p.: 22 cm.
Includes index
Whether your interest is neologisms or pleonasms, sobriquets or oxymorons, tongue-twisters or palindromes, this book strolls through the vast landscape of the English language and wanders down its most illogical, peculiar and idiosyncratic byways. It ranges from where words have come from to why spelling and pronunciation don`t match up.
English
978-1-85788-372-5
Lexicology
English language--Humor
English language--Etymology
English language--Usage
English language--History
422 T56m