The Oxford guide to word games / Tony Augarde.

Author/creator Augarde, Tony
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoOxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Descriptionix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Word games
Contents Riddles -- Enigmas -- Charades -- Acrostics -- Word Squares -- Crosswords -- Scrabble -- Anagrams -- Rebus -- Chronograms -- Palindromes -- Pangrams -- Lipograms and univocalics -- Letter games -- Alphabet games -- Playing with poetry -- Concrete poetry -- Tongue-twisters -- Spoonerisms -- Slips of the tongue -- Lapsus linguae -- Games of Lewis Carroll -- Cumulative games -- Twenty questions and other guessing games -- Homonyms -- Puns - Miscellany. Longest word ; Oulipo ; Pronunciation ; Self-referential words and sentences.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-274) and index.
LCCN 2003270586
ISBN0198662645

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks GV1507.W8 A84 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold