The Dictionary Of Wordplay
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Author | : Chris Cole |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780806917979 |
Which words are hardest to rhyme? What word is longer than any other...or shorter? Do you know what a tautonym is or a "head 'n' tail"? if you never thought that language could provide hours of entertainment, these "games" will definitely change your mind -- and sharpen your brain!
Author | : Dave Morice |
Publisher | : Teachers & Writers |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : |
This marvelous reference guide should be at the side of every writer; it's the first wordplay dictionary ever! Concepts like "exquisite corpse," "kangaroo word," and "Jabberwocky," which frequently appear in contemporary writings, are defined here, with examples. More than 1,234 entries are in this book.
Author | : John S. Crosbie |
Publisher | : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Canadian wit and humor |
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Author | : Gyles Brandreth |
Publisher | : Coronet |
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 | : Charles Harrington Elster |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780156031974 |
Presents a humorous look at the English language, including information on word and phrase origins, slang, style, usage, punctuation, and pronunciation.
Author | : Esme Winter-Froemel |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2018-10-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110586371 |
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles selected papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference The Dynamics of Wordplay / La dynamique du jeu de mots (Trier, 2016) and stresses the inherent dynamicity of wordplay and wordplay research.
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 | : Harryette Mullen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2002-02-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0520927834 |
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."
Author | : Kory Stamper |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 110197026X |
“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.
Author | : Eley Williams |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385546785 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.