Word games and wordplay are a great way for native and non-native speakers of any language to sharpen their skills. Today is the release date for a new book called Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay. This is the latest in a long series of mind-bending, trivia-filled, and tongue-tying books by author Rod. L. Evans, Ph.D., and it looks as though it will tie the tongues and bend the brains of even the most adept anglophiles.
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From Amazon.com
Welcome to the Weird and Wonderful World of Words!
Tyrannosaurus Lex is your guide to the intriguing world of logology—the pursuit of word puzzles or puzzling words—featuring:
- A wealth of witty anagrams, palindromes, and puns
- Clever paraprosdokians: sentences with surprising endings (“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.”—Groucho Marx)
- Fascinating oronyms: a pair of phrases that differ in meaning and spelling, yet share a similar pronunciation (“The stuffy nose can lead to problems” versus “The stuff he knows can lead to problems.”)
- Peculiar oxymora: words or phrases that are self-contradictory (Jumbo shrimp! Guest host! Gold silverware!)
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