Port Out, Starboard Home
by Michael Quinion | 
By Hook or By Crook
by David Crystal |
More Weird and Wonderful Words
by Erin McKean |
The Game of Words
by Willard R. Espy | 
Crazy English
by Richard Lederer | 
The Fight for English
by David Crystal |
Blooming English
by Kate Burridge | 
The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson | 
The Word Museum
by Jeffrey Kacirk | 
Word on the Street
by John McWhorter | 
The Etymologicon
by Mark Forsyth |
The Adventure of English
by Melvyn Bragg |
Anguished English
by Richard Lederer |
The Stories of English
by David Crystal | 
Weird and Wonderful Words
by Erin McKean | 
The Miracle of Language
by Richard Lederer | 
Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer
by Priscilla Shirer |
The Amazing Book is Not on Fire
by Dan Howell | 
The Adventurous Eaters Club
by Misha Collins |
The C Programming Language
by Brian W. Kernighan |
Do you know the connection between the expression A HARROWING EXPERIENCE and agriculture, between BY AND LARGE and sailing, between GET YOUR GOAT and horses, or between STEAL YOUR THUNDER and show business? You probably have heard the comparisons HAPPY AS A CLAM, SMART AS A WHIP, PLEASED AS PUNCH, DEAD AS A DOORNAIL - but have you ever wondered why a clam should be happy, a whip smart, punch pleased, and a doornail dead? By playing the fifty games in this book, you'll discover the answers to these questions as well as hundreds of other semantic delights that repose in our marvelous English language.