Curious Words and Language – 50 Brain Teazers (English Edition)

Words have fascinated people for centuries; Dr Samuel Johnson said, ‘Words are the signs of ideas’, while Rudyard Kipling said, ‘Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.’ Words can be like music and entertain, they can sooth and excite and give pleasure; they can also inform, instruct and educate. Above all they can be fun. The aim in this book is not toward high literary merit, but toward a stirring of the little grey cells in (I hope) an amusing way.