More than 100 vocabulary-building quizzes

Make up the core of the book, with shorter sections on:

The fascinating origins of words

Quotes and misquotes

Slang, dialects and secret languages

Unforgettable Adverts, Famous Lines from Novels and Movies

Newspeak, Basic English, spelling reform

Malapropisms, politicians' blunders and 'mispeakings'

Mnemonics and other memory joggers

Palindromes and anagrams

Semaphore, Morse, tic-tac, hand gestures and other ways of speaking without words

Entry after entry explores the byways, oddities and curiosities of the English language.