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Loading... Manglo-Saxon: Marvelously Mangled Meanings for Well-Worn Wordsby R. S. Young
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From The Unkempt Language Laboratory of England's foremost unknown neolinguist comes Manglo-Saxon: a new kind of lexicon in which words sound and look like what they mean. You'll yelp with pleasure (when you're not wheezing with indignation) at such redefinitions as: EQUATOR: Exclamation on finding something unexpected in restaurant food. "Equator! There's a spider in my soup." YOGHURT: An injury sustained while practicing yoga. "I'm sorry I can't come jogging with you today. I've got yoghurt in my groin."...and more than three hundred similarly refreshing, ready-to-use new old words! No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)428.10207Language English & Old English languages Standard English usage (Prescriptive linguistics) WordsLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings. |