A Miscellany for Word Lovers: Origins, Meanings & Quizzes

by Robin Hosie (Author), Vic Mayhew (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2014

  $4.54

  More than 100 vocabulary-building quizzes make up the core of the book, with shorter sections on:

  * The fascinating origins of words
  * Quotes and misquotes
  * Slang, dialects and secret languages
  * Unforgettable Adverts, Famous Lines from Novels and Movies
  * Newspeak, Basic English, spelling reform
  * Malapropisms, politicians' blunders and 'mispeakings'
  * Mnemonics and other memory joggers
  * Palindromes and anagrams
  * Semaphore. Morse, tic-tac, hand gestures and other ways of speaking without words

  Entry after entry explores the byways, oddities and curiosities of the English language.

• New

  Paperback
  2014

  $10.43

  More than 100 vocabulary-building quizzes make up the core of the book, with shorter sections on:

  * The fascinating origins of words
  * Quotes and misquotes
  * Slang, dialects and secret languages
  * Unforgettable Adverts, Famous Lines from Novels and Movies
  * Newspeak, Basic English, spelling reform
  * Malapropisms, politicians' blunders and 'mispeakings'
  * Mnemonics and other memory joggers
  * Palindromes and anagrams
  * Semaphore. Morse, tic-tac, hand gestures and other ways of speaking without words

  Entry after entry explores the byways, oddities and curiosities of the English language.