Product Description: Welcome to the Weird and Wonderful World of Words! Tyrannosaurus Lex is your guide to the intriguing world of logology—the pursuit of word puzzles or puzzling words—featuring: •A wealth of witty anagrams, palindromes, and puns •Clever paraprosdokians: sentences with surprising endings (“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it...read more

Product Description: ?The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.? (Mark Twain)What?s the difference between: Nectar and ambrosia? Bough and branch? Astonished and surprised? Sensual and sensuous? Beside and besides? Many people use these words interchangeably but there are actually subtle and interesting differences in meaning and usage...read more

An entertaining and helpful manual introduces hundreds of key mnemonic devices designed to help readers recall important facts about science, spelling, world history, music, literature, sports, religion, and many other fields of interest. Original.