Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplay

by RossEckler (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $18.23

  The grand master of American word play presents a life's work of the most challenging linguistic games and puzzles that have stumped word lovers for decades. Examples include acrostics, palindromes, homonyms, anagrams, lipograms, word squares, cadences, and isograms. 30 diagrams.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $5.06

  From one of the world's master wordsmen, a dazzling study of letterplay that reinterpretsour understanding of how we use language.Aimed at word lovers, Scrabble players, crossword addicts and anyone who's fascinated by what can be done with the English language, this book by master American wordsman Ross Eckler has been called 'one of the most important wordplay books of the 20th century'. It gathers together Eckler's life's work of alphabetical manipulations and conundrums, illustrating the wonderful intricacies of letterplay with hundreds of examples ranging from acrostics, anagrams and word squares to palindromes, lipograms and homonyms. Fascinating and mind-bending, this is the definitive work on English-language wordplay.