The Game of Words

The Game of Words The Remarkable Exuberance of the English Language

Hardback (18 Aug 2003)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Attention language lovers: prepare to be taken prisoner. Willard R. Espy, word gamester extraordinaire, has put together more than 200 sublimely satisfying diversions -- including acrostics, clerihews, epigrams, cryptograms, spoonerisms, palindromes, puns, and much, much more.

Presented here are the wildest array of tongue twisters, brainteasers, and other mind-benders new and old, along with notes on their histories, tips on how to play them or solve them, and page after page of mind-boggling challenges you won't find anywhere else. It is a celebration of the energy, wit, flexibility, and fun of the English language by its most ardent aficionado.

Book information

ISBN: 9781579123246
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Imprint: Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub date:
DEWEY: 793.73
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 279
Weight: 499g
Height: 222mm
Width: 146mm
Spine width: 25mm