- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Robson Books Ltd (11 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1861053754
- ISBN-13: 978-1861053756
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,481,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With anecdotes, anagrams and acrostics, puns, palindromes and puzzles, oxymorons and pangrams, the presenter of Channel 4's "Countdown" serves up his own A-Z of wit and word.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful and Whimsical Wordplay,
By Book Beaver (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Treasury of Words and Wordplay (Paperback)
This is a most entertaining book on all aspects of words by the deeply missed Richard Whiteley who presented Countdown for almost a quarter of a century.
It includes sections on such themes as anecdotes, anagrams and acrostics, puns, palindromes and puzzles, metaphors, metagrams and measures. The book is an excellent mix of The Oxford Guide to Word Games and a Gyles Brandreth puzzle book. A few highlights are as follows: Authentic Authors: The Antiques by Fay Kingham The Cliff Tragedy by Eileen Dover Cutting It Fine by Moses Lawn Rural Transport by Orson Cart Repetitious Rhyme: A 26 line alphabetical poem with a twist - every single line rhymes with the last word of the first line (disputes). Peculiar Plurals: The plurals of such words as mongoose, pince-nez, landsman and tenderfoot.
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