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Available
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Description
In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.
Publication
Gallery Books (1998), Edition: Revised, 224 pages
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ISBN
0671023233 / 9780671023232
Collection
Original language
English
User reviews
LibraryThing member sunnytest
I can't really put my finger on _why_ I find this such a badly written book. Something in its tone makes me want to shred it to pieces.
LibraryThing member psybre
Successful as a conversation piece, best placed on the coffee table. Best read in short spurts, about once a month, due to some repetition and unexpected pages of drudgery. Still, interesting as advertised, but not very memorable for me. I'm leaving it out for others to leaf through.
LibraryThing member satyridae
I love all his books, this is no exception.
LibraryThing member parapreacher
A must-read for those fascinated by the English language and words! Hard to put down once you start.
LCC
PE1095 .L37