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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 WordplayLanguage junkie should read this By language junkie I don t mean the foreign junkie one but the structure junkie one 039953749X this would be good as a coffee table book or bathroom book and i mean this in the best way possible not as an insult because i personally love coffee table and bathroom books i love having books to just flip through at odd times that don t have the commitment of a novel. Book Tyrannosaurus lexmark i found this really enjoyable at different intervals i opened the book up to random chapters and read one here and there on my breaks at work the pun and misnomer chapters were of course my favourite 039953749X This book contains various different types of words explains what they are and then lists them The majority of the book is in fact lists which are to an extent interesting but realistically have very little use 039953749X This is textbook reference than novel so if you re reading it cover to cover like I did it s slow BUT it s super funny and enlightening amazing to see what the English language can do Some things seem to be a reach but since the book is about words and wordplay it s not all the same material that you would learn in english class Some of it is but that s because the wordplays get trickier and complicated as you go Definitely a fun read and will definitely flip through again 039953749X A collection of lists I was hoping for . Book Tyrannosaurus lexmark Lists out many relations between words but a few of the lists are just ways to address look at words without any deeper significance But ultimately it s my fault for my high expectations Wanted a deeper discussion of the relations between words This is not that 039953749X 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 039953749X I love these words this book I can t wait to study it deeper 039953749X 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 039953749X It was just lists of palindromes etc Nothing interesting 039953749X The 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. Book Tyrannosaurus lex 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 rex names 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 039953749X.