01112nam a2200265Ia 450000500170000000800410001724501120005810000250017026000440019530000180023930000110025750000190026802000220028765000150030965000280032465000320035265000280038465000300041205000130044254600120045552003440046733600090081133700150082033800110083520260803094050.0251212s2007    xx            000 0 und d1 aMuch ado about english : bup and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language /cRichard Watson Todd.  aTodd, Richard Watson  aLondon :bNicholas Brealey Pub.,c2007.  aviii, 148 p.:  c22 cm.  aIncludes index  a978-1-85788-372-5  aLexicology  aEnglish languagexHumor  aEnglish languagexEtymology  aEnglish languagexUsage  aEnglish languagexHistory  a422 T56m  aEnglish  aWhether 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.  aText  aUnmediated  aVolume