The African svelte : ingenious misspellings that make surprising sense / Daniel Meneker

By:

Menaker, Daniel [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, c2016Description: 225 pages : illustrations ; 19cmISBN:

9780544800632

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LOC classification:

GC PN 6231 .M46 2016

Summary: ' Inspired by the author's tenure at "The New Yorker," a collection of whimsical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English includes entries ranging from "exit Jesus" and "doggy-dog world" to "for all intensive purposes" and "dairy airs." These misunderstandings are illustrative of the linguistic errors known as mondegreens and eggcorns. ''

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU Clark Circulation	Non-fiction	GC PN 6231 .M46 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		NUCLA000003873

' Inspired by the author's tenure at "The New Yorker," a collection of whimsical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English includes entries ranging from "exit Jesus" and "doggy-dog world" to "for all intensive purposes" and "dairy airs." These misunderstandings are illustrative of the linguistic errors known as mondegreens and eggcorns. ''

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