Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay By Rod L. Evans
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Welcome to the Weird and Wonderful World of Words Tyrannosaurus Lex is your guide to the intriguing world of logology the pursuit of word puzzles or puzzling words A wealth of witty anagrams palindromes and puns Clever sentences with surprising endings I ve had a perfectly wonderful evening but this wasn t it Groucho Marx Fascinating a pair of phrases that differ in meaning and spelling yet share a similar pronunciation The stuffy nose can lead to problems versus The stuff he knows can lead to problems Peculiar words or phrases that are self contradictory Jumbo shrimp Guest host Gold silverware So sit back and get ready to learn about everything from antigrams and aptanagrams to kangaroo words and phantonyms You ll never look at language the same again Tyrannosaurus Lex The Marvelous Book of Palindromes Anagrams and Other Delightful and Outrageous WordplayThe title pretty much tells you what you will find between the covers of this book plentiful examples of palindromes anagrams and other forms of wordplay in the English language broken up into categories that include heteronyms words that look the same but have different pronunciations and meanings homophones and homonyms which sound and or are spelled the same but have different meanings tautonyms terms that repeat the same meaning twice oxymora terms that seemingly contradict themselves parasprodokians sentences that veer in an unexpected direction names that intentionally or not sound like puns and a lot I bought this book during the same shopping spree and read it during the same week of vacation as June Casagrande s Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies The inevitable comparison between the two books tends perhaps unfairly against this book which doesn t have that book s through written narrative effervescent humor or personable tone While parts of both books were fun to read aloud to members of my family with whom I was enjoying drinks munchies and sunshine on an outdoor deck a number of chapters were composed of lists of examples so long that I actually skimmed them because reading them in full even to myself would have been unbearable Another unfortunate comparison arose when I happened to open a book by Richard Lederer Anguished English Crazy English The Play of Words etc to whom this book repeatedly acknowledges its indebtedness Lederer presents a lot of the same material with approximately equal exhaustiveness but does so in a consistently entertaining way. Tyrannosaurus extinction So this book has some fun bits and could come in handy as a quick reference handbook to different types of wordplay with useful examples of each but as something to read on that outdoor deck cover to cover it lacked a certain je ne sais quoi Well je sais r ellement quoi but it s awkward to say I wished I had bought a book by Richard Lederer instead or perhaps another book by June Casagrande so excuse me for feigning ignorance I m trying to be nice here And this is a nice enough little book though perhaps it shouldn t have been packaged as if it were meant to be a marvelous delightful and outrageous piece of entertainment That just sets the reader up for a disappointment. Tyrannosaurus lexware Evans a philosopher and lecturer who specializes in everything politics religion ethics language etc is also the author of The Artful Nuance A Refined Guide to Imperfectly Understood Words in the English Language Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits and several other books English I m certainly not using this as a reference book but I flip through it when I m bored and it is hilarious It s fun to refresh some of the things I didn t commit to memory in my many English classes and the puns are genius English It was just lists of palindromes etc Nothing interesting English I love these words this book I can t wait to study it deeper English A big bag of gee whiz just boring word play You might think that s not possible but consider exhibit A The introduction does the rest of the book a disservice either skip it or dive right in English
| Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay By Rod L. Evans |
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