Puns And Wordplay
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Author | : John Pollack |
Publisher | : Avery |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1592406750 |
At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book is a funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history.
Author | : Richard Lederer |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1996-06-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1613746288 |
Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoonerisms, games of word substitution, and more.
Author | : Norton Juster |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1988-10-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0394820371 |
With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!
Author | : Alison Westwood |
Publisher | : Canary Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : Plays on words |
ISBN | : 9781907795022 |
In today's busy world, where text-speak seems to be the prevalent form of written English, and the average teenager can barely form a proper sentence without using the numbers '4' or '8' as substitutes for letters, is the pun becoming an endangered species? As a society we have come to regard wordplay as old-fashioned, obvious humour, because it hinges simply on one word having multiple definitions, spellings or sound-a-likes. It may not be controversial, edgy or even topical, but it actually takes a great deal of skill, wit and general knowledge to come up with a decent pun not everyone can do it. THE LITTLE BOOK OF PUNS explores the dying art of paronomasia and gives us a taste of the very best wordplay history has to offer. It harks back to the heady days when intelligence was measured at dinner parties rather than behind a school desk, when people still wrote letters instead of emails and actually read newspapers instead of checking out a website. This book may as well exist in anti gravity, because you ll find it almost impossible to put down!
Author | : Benjamin Branfman |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2015-04-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781508582168 |
Lots of pun books claim to have hundreds of puns, but they really just offer a few dozen good ones mixed in with other types of jokes or quotes. This book actually contains over 500 excellent and original puns: It's real, it's quality, and it's rather large indeed. What more do you need?
Author | : Gyles Brandreth |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1473620317 |
'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun. Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and word-meister, Just A Minute regular, One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, founder of the National Scrabble Championships, patron of The Queen's English Society, QI, Room 101, Have I Got News For You and Pointless survivor - on an uproarious and unexpected magic carpet ride around the awesome world of words and wordplay. Puns, palindromes, pangrams, Malaprops, euphemisms, mnemonics, acronyms, anagrams, alphabeticals, Tweets, verbiage, verbarrhea - if you can name it, you should find it here, along with the longest, shortest, wittiest, wildest, oldest, latest, oddest, most interesting and most memorable words in the English language - the richest, most remarkable language ever known.
Author | : Marvin Terban |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780395581131 |
An abundant cache of ideas for using words and wordplay to create engaging riddles and jokes.
Author | : Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2012-05-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1452116571 |
What do you get when you combine a word and a number? A wumber! Paying tribute to William Steig's CDB!, best-selling book, cre8ors Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld have wri10 and illustr8ed this s2pendous book that is 1derful 4 readers in kindergar10 and up. If we've confused you, just take a look at the book—4tun8ly it has helpful pictures. We are sure you will get it ins10tly!
Author | : Sylvia Adamson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2007-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521866405 |
A collection of essays, each tackling a Renaissance figure of speech in literature.
Author | : Frida Clements |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2015-08-11 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1452153671 |
Artist Frida Clements playfully combines colorfully detailed flora and fauna drawings with funny hand-lettered wordplay in this collection of beautifully illustrated puns. Honey, bee yourself! Gopher it. Don't be koi. Like puns? That's coo, says the pigeon. Hate puns? Birch, please. Bringing a giggle (and sometimes a groan) with each inspired page, this clever ebook makes a lovely and lighthearted gift for fans of witty humor and illustration. Having a bad hare day? Feeling a little antsy? What the hail, just dill with it, and for fox sake, have a little pun.