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Crazy English

Crazy English

Crazy English

Richard Lederer

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Simon & Schuster
Año de edición:
1998
Materia
Humor
ISBN:
9780671023232
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In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn’t know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You’ll take a bird’s-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.

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