What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language by Charles Harrington Elster

What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language

Charles Harrington Elster

286 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction funny informative fast-paced
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Are you so sure about "assure," "ensure," and "insure"? Can you determine whether a knob of butter is equivalent to a lump or a pat or a scosh? Can you say which word in the English language has the most definitions, or who put the H in Jesus H. C...

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