Much ado about english : up and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language / Richard Watson Todd.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Nicholas Brealey Pub., 2007.Description: viii, 148 p; 22 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • Unmediated
Carrier type:
  • Volume
ISBN:
  • 978-1-85788-372-5
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 422 T56m
Summary: 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.
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Includes index

English

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.

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