CRYSTALS CURIOSITY CABINET (HB)

What do a comic alphabet, a glorious lipogram and a wellerism have in common? Have you ever met an audit of accountants, an illusion of magicians, or an intrusion of spammers? And do you know how Shakespeare pronounced his name? Following the example of the Victorian miscellany and cabinet of curiosities, the wide-ranging entries in this book reveal contemporary and historical oddities of language, playful place-names, wayward punctuation, weird words, strange expressions, and much, much more. Selected from his own collection, for your enjoyment, by David Crystal, one of Britain’s leading linguists.