Crazy English (edition 1990)

by Richard Lederer

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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.… (more)

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Title:	Crazy English
Authors:	Richard Lederer
Info:	Pocket (1990), Paperback, 188 pages
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laplantelibrary | Mar 14, 2022 |

A must-read for those fascinated by the English language and words! Hard to put down once you start. (

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parapreacher | Apr 20, 2020 |

Palindromes can be very complex! (

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LindaLeeJacobs | Feb 15, 2020 |

I love all his books, this is no exception. (

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satyridae | Apr 5, 2013 |

Successful as a conversation piece, best placed on the coffee table. Best read in short spurts, about once a month, due to some repetition and unexpected pages of drudgery. Still, interesting as advertised, but not very memorable for me. I'm leaving it out for others to leaf through. (

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To my family, for always encouraging me to build castles in the air;
To Pete and Robin, for putting the foundations underneath;
To Stacy, for her lovely interior decorating.

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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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