Title:
The African svelte : ingenious misspellings that make surprising sense / Daniel Menaker ; drawings by Roz Chast ; foreword by Billy Collins.
ISBN:
9780544800632
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Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Summary:
Inspired by the author's tenure at "The New Yorker," a collection of whimsical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English includes entries ranging from "exit Jesus" and "doggy-dog world" to "for all intensive purposes" and "dairy airs."
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OCLC Number:
ocn959963602
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
