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Book Review of Crazy English

Crazy English
Crazy English
Author: Richard Lederer
Genre: Reference
Book Type: Paperback
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From Back of Book: In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway, play at a recital and recite at a play? Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language.

Looks at confusable English, Hetronyms, violent English, foxen in the henhice, alliteration, ailihphilia, and a great deal more.