Crazy English and Fractured English
In Fractured English, bestselling author, Richard Lederer shares his collection of language gems, presented in his signature style—uncut, unpolished, and one hundred percent genuine. Fractured English is the only place you’ll encounter this student’s complaint: “I pass my testes. My grades should...
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In Fractured English, bestselling author, Richard Lederer shares his collection of language gems, presented in his signature style—uncut, unpolished, and one hundred percent genuine. Fractured English is the only place you’ll encounter this student’s complaint: “I pass my testes. My grades should be hirer” or this headache of a headline: “Legislators Tax Brains to Cut Deficit.” “Some people are bird-watchers. I watch word-botchers,” declares the author as he expertly guides you through his world of loopy language.Enjoy more classic Ledrerer with Crazy English, a romp through the logic-boggling byways of our language, where you’ll discover the names for phobias you didn’t know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter of our alphabet. You’ll laugh as you learn that the English language is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell! Crazy English is perfect laugh-out-loud entertainment, guaranteed to keep you figuratively glued to your seat while you fall heels over head in love with our lunatic language.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781439158715 (1439158711)
Publish date: July 10th 2009
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
I loved it, but nothing else quite comes close to the joy to be found within the pages of Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
I love all his books, this is no exception.