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245	1		_aMuch ado about english : _bup and down the bizarre byways of a fascinating language / _cRichard Watson Todd.
100			_aTodd, Richard Watson
260			_aLondon : _bNicholas Brealey Pub., _c2007.
300			_aviii, 148 p.:
300			_c22 cm.
500			_aIncludes index
020			_a978-1-85788-372-5
650			_aLexicology
650			_aEnglish language _xHumor
650			_aEnglish language _xEtymology
650			_aEnglish language _xUsage
650			_aEnglish language _xHistory
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546			_aEnglish
953			_cCollLib
520			_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.
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336			_aText
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338			_aVolume
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