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Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay

Aptanagramy, antigrams, acronyms, bacronyms, palimdromes, paraprosdokians, semordnilaps, paradoxical statements, oxymora, pangrams, malapropisms, eggcorns, oronyms, mondegreens, homophones, grammagrams, chemograms, piano words, euonyms, pleonasms, alternades, kangaroo words, tautonyms, portmanteau words, beheadments, contronyms, heteronyms, capitonyms, and much, much more! This unusual, interesting, fascinating, informative, perplexing book of words has thousands of tricks and words you may, or perhaps may not, already know: how to change black to white in a word chain, what are the longest words in common use, or in Shakespeare, or in the Guinness Book of Records, etc. James Joyce’™s two 100-letter words from Finnegans Wake are, of course, there, as is the official 1,185 letter name of the molecule Carbon785Hydrogen1220Nitorgen212Oxygen248Sulfur2 (sorry, we can`t do subscript!). And why is couscous unusual. And what are the 112 different spellings according to the US Library of Congress and/or used by the New York Times and the Associated Press for the name of the late and unlamented Libyan dictator. Words useful and some maybe not so, words weird and wonderful, words short and very, very long ‘“ every page has something for you to discover, unless you are, of course, Rod L. Evans, the book’™s author.

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