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Description
Discover the meaning of acronyms, cliches and spoonerisms. Find out the history of the alphabet, punctuation, pen names and plurals. Learn how to trick your friends by speaking in Pig Latin or rhyming slang. This entertaining, quirky and enlightening look at the English language is full of games, puzzles, facts and riddles. Ages 9+.Awards
Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award Patricia Wrightson Prize 2009. Shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Awards: Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2009.Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9780670072279
- : Penguin Books Australia
- : Viking Australia
- : March 2008
- : 184mm X mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrated
- : 256
- : 9-12
- : 410
- : Tohby Riddle
- : Hardback
- : Ursula Dubosarsky
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