Going to Hell in a Hen Basket
An Illustrated Dictionary of Modern Malapropisms
Malapropism - A word or phrase that has been mistaken for another, usually because of its sound rather than its meaning.Everyone has made the mistake of using a word or phrase that they think sounds correct, but in fact is not. Malapropisms make some sense. They have a semantic logic to them, even if that logic makes perfect nonsense. In Going to Hell in a Hen Basket, author Robert Alden Rubin delights in the creative misuse of words and celebrates the verbal and textual flubs that ignore the conventions of proper English.Culled from blogs, the deepest corners of the internet, as well as some of the most esteemed publications, here is a colle…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-06628-2
- EAN: 9781250066282
- Produktnummer: 22467132
- Verlag: Flatiron Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'911 KB
- Abbildungen: Includes over 100 black-and-white illustrations throughout
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