In the tradition of Richard Lederer, linguistic connoisseurs Berent and Evans serve up another fascinating collection of strange linguistic phenomena, crazy names, wild puns, freaks of verbality and exotic etymologies. Instead of using traditional definitions, the authors describe the words themselves in a well-ordered, unintimidating format.
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In the tradition of Richard Lederer, linguistic connoisseurs Berent and Evans serve up another fascinating collection of strange linguistic phenomena, crazy names, wild puns, freaks of verbality and exotic etymologies. Instead of using traditional definitions, the authors describe the words themselves in a well-ordered, unintimidating format.
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