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Menaker, Daniel, author.
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English language -- Humor.
English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Humor.
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The African svelte :...
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The African svelte : ingenious misspellings that make surprising sense / Daniel Menaker ; drawings by Roz Chast ; foreword by Billy Collins.
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Menaker, Daniel, author.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
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English language -- Humor.
English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Humor.
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9780544800632 (hardcover) :
054480063X (hardcover) :
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xxvii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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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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428.10207 Me
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