TY  - BOOK
AU  - Todd, Richard Watson
TI  - Much ado about english : : up and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language 
SN  - 978-1-85788-372-5
AV  - 422 T56m 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Nicholas Brealey Pub.
KW  - Lexicology
KW  - English language
KW  - Humor
KW  - Etymology
KW  - Usage
KW  - History
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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
ER  -