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The African svelte : ingenious misspellings that make surprising sense / Daniel Meneker
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TextPublication details: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, c2016Description: 225 pages : illustrations ; 19cmISBN: - 9780544800632
- GC PN 6231 .M46 2016
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' 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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