Funny Side of EnglishPustak Mahal, 24 aug. 2002 - 231 sidor The Funny Side of English takes you on a pleasure trip through the English language. Besides being an international language, English is also a funny and crazy tongue - which this book on recreational English amply proves. Interesting aspects about the language are unraveled across every chapter. the alphabetical chapters - from ABC Language to Words Worth Reviving - will open a world of amazing and amusing English. An absolute engrosser, you will find this a hard-to-put-down book, finishing it at one sitting. |
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Backformation 29 | |
Beheadments 31 | |
Got 75 | |
Irish Bulls 115 | |
Magic Calendar 131 | |
Misspelled Words 139 | |
ology World 145 | |
Ormonyms 147 | |
Palindromes 149 | |
Portmanteau Words 152 | |
Beware Of Androphonomaniacs 33 | |
Big Brothers 37 | |
Binomials 38 | |
Bloopers 39 | |
Charades 41 | |
Clerihews 42 | |
Consonant Words 43 | |
Curtailments 44 | |
Diminutives 45 | |
Do You Know That Fish Have A School? 47 | |
Pronunciation 154 | |
Punctuation Marks 157 | |
Puns 161 | |
Queer Words 163 | |
Rarely Used Positive Words 165 | |
Swearwords From Fish And Flowers 182 | |
The Suet Alphabet 194 | |
Vowelconsonant Patterns 220 | |
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17th centuries 26 letters Adjective Word Adjective alphabet anagrams animals answer apocope aptronym back-forrnation bacronym badger beheaded bird bloopers Book of Lists Brother bull calf century chatter Clerihew comma consonants contains CONTRONYM deer defines deletion difficulty disease doctor doctor doctor duck elephant English words Espy example figure find fire first fish five vowels fleece flight flock flowers fly gang gender goose Gyles Brandreth herd Home Name hyphens Irving Wallace isogram kangaroo word known lamb last letters limerick lion lipograms longest word malapropism misspelling NAME GROUP TERM Name of Home noun one’s Oxford palindromic pangram phobia-word plural pronounce pronunciation punctuation QARAQALPAQ quindecillion rabbit rearrangement Richard Lederer riddle scientific name Semordnilap sheep sound specific SUET Suffix Swiftie tautonyms Tom Swiftie transdeletions transposed Univocalics verb verse walk Webster’s whale woman Word Adjective Word Word Games word is called Word Word words in English