Uncle John's Facts to Go Talk Wordy to Me (Facts to Go #15)
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- Synopsis
- We asked Roget himself what he thought of Talk Wordy To Me, and he gushed that it's "incredible, magnificent, wonderful, marvelous, spectacular, astonishing, awe-inspiring, tremen%hellip;" Then we cut him off because there's only so much room to tell you about all the great articles you'll find in this e-book about word and phrase origins, anagrams, palindromes, puns, jargon, tongue twisters, and the (unintentionally) naughtiest typos ever typed. What else is in here? Lots! A smorgasbord! A cornucopia! A plethora! Myriad! So expand your vocabulary with...-How txting b changin langage lol-The epic story of epic words that are losing their luster (like "epic")-A pop music anagram quiz-The world's wordiest novelist-Presidential misspeaks that spawned new words-Hilarious headstones from around the world-Words and phrases that are much older than you'd think (like "politically correct" and "truthiness")-Peter Mark Roget's obsessive-compulsive quest to create his famous thesaurus-What irony isn't-Trivia, with a catch--all answers contain pooAnd much, much more!
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781626862449
- Publisher:
- Portable Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/01/18
- Copyrighted By:
- the Bathroom Readers' Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Reference, Humor
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.