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Alliteration, anagram, euphemism, malopropism, Molly Wordmaid, neologism, nonce word, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, palindrome, Polly Painter, spoonerism, tautology, Word types
The Wondrous Wacky World of Words
Announcing a new essay eloquently written by “Molly Wordmaid” (aka Ben Bennetts) and lavishly illustrated by “Polly Painter” (aka Jenny Bennetts).
Here’s the summary of the essay.
How are you on words? Do you know your oxymorons from your tautologies; your alliterations from your euphemisms; your acronyms from your homonyms; or your onomatopoeias from your palindromes? Is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious a nonce word or a nonsense word? Can you create neologisms by prefixing, suffixing, back-forming, compounding, and blending with the best of them? Can you define the word word without using the word word? Do you know what it means to munch a brick or bend someone’s ear? Is a fire distinguisher a spoonerism or a malapropism? Are you a logophile, an etymologist, a lexicologist, a philologist, a logologist, a linguist or just someone who enjoys a walk in the park?
If you know the answers to all these questions, you’ve no need to read this essay. If not, read on and be amused, amazed and ameliorated.
You can download the essay from two sources:
Smashwords. Enter ‘Ben Bennetts’ in the search engine to locate the essay. Available in MOBI, EPUB and PDF formats. $1.49
Amazon’s Kindle Store. Go to Amazon’s website and search for ‘Ben Bennetts’ in the Kindle Store. Available in MOBI only. £0.99
Or send me an e-mail and request a free download, justifying your request in not more than 20 wondrous wacky words!
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I decided it would be too stressful to write an essay with twenty ‘wondrous wacky words’ so you have been ‘Kindled’.
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Thanks Mary. When you peruse the essay you will read about coinages; the process of turning proper nouns into generic verbs such as ‘to hoover’ or ‘to xerox’. You have just created a new coinage: ‘to kindle’. Well done!
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Congratulations on the new release. I look forward to learning a new word or two! 😉
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I have now completed reading this very informative book. Congratulations to both the author and the artist for a job well done. There is obviously a lot of hard work and many hours invested in the completion.
I cannot promise that I will remember all the new words that you have introduced me to but I have now adopted ‘entozoons’ as my new favourite word. It will become my new word for expressing my frustrations e.g. ‘you are a stupid entozoon’. I’m sure no one will be offended as it sounds such a ‘friendly’ word.
I can also say that this has been my first experience with a Kindle and I still prefer a real book.
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Thanks Mary. Glad you enjoyed the book and have added a new word to your vocabulary. I also liked snollygoster – a politician guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles. Fits Tony Blair to a T, don’t you think?
Kindles are forever!
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I agree that snollygoster would fit Mr. Blair to a tee, and Mrs. Blair come to that.
I also liked ‘horripilations’ but I have trouble pronouncing it.
I now have a good reference source of amazing words to impress my friends!
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