{"product_id":"manglo-saxon-marvelously-mangled-meanings-for-well-worn-words-076492737x","title":"Manglo-Saxon: Marvelously Mangled Meanings for Well-Worn Words","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 076492737X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Young, R. S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51951764341024,"sku":"NEW076492737X","price":39.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/manglo-saxon-marvelously-mangled-meanings-for-well-worn-words-076492737x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}