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A miscellany for word lovers : origins, meanings and quizzes

Hosie, Robin2014

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More than 100 vocabulary-building quizzes make up the core of the book, with shorter sections on: The fascinating origins of words, quotes and misquotes, slang, dialects and secret languages, unforgettable adverts, famous lines from novels and movies, newspeak, basic english, spelling reform, malapropisms, politicians' blunders and 'mispeakings', mnemonics and other memory joggers, palindromes and anagrams, semaphore and morse code, tic-tac, hand gestures and other ways of speaking without words, and many other oddities and curiosities of the English language.