This is a cornucopia of verbal treats. It records the most wonderful creative mishearings like "Hail Mary, full of grapes", and howlers like "nowadays many women work as men" - and then delights with scholarly but endlessly entertaining analyses of literary terms such as hypocorism, palindrome, clerihew, idiom, acronym and many others. It expounds on the meaning and derivation of carpe diem, it supplies answers to those tricky puzzles such as an English word containing all five vowels (in correct order of course - also in reverse) and documents famous last words of the departing.
A book for people who are seduced by the magic of words.
