Manglo-Saxon: Marvelously Mangled Meanings for Well-Worn Words

ISBN: 076492737X

Author: Young, R. S.

Condition: New

From The Unkempt Language Laboratory of England's foremost unknown neolinguist comes Manglo-Saxon: a new kind of lexicon in which words sound and look like what they mean. You'll yelp with pleasure (when you're not wheezing with indignation) at such redefinitions as: EQUATOR: Exclamation on finding something unexpected in restaurant food. "Equator! There's a spider in my soup." LIMPET: A sedated domestic animal. "A simple pill turns a hysterical schnauzer into a wobbling limpet." YOGHURT: An injury sustained while practicing yoga. "I'm sorry I can't come jogging with you today. I've got yoghurt in my groin."...and more than three hundred similarly refreshing, ready-to-use new old words!124 pages with approximately 360 entries in eleven chapters such as food, health, and music. Black-and-white and color illustrations are spackled throughout. Smythe-sewn casebound book with dust jacket.