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by: Howard W. Bergerson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.07
EAN: 9780486206646
ISBN: 0486206645
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 130
Publication Date: June 01, 1973
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 331949
Studio: Dover Publications
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Fascinating word-lover's treasury brings together over 1,100 different anagrams and nearly as many palindromes, plus a host of related phenomena — charades, circular reversals, vocabulary called poetry, etc., plus much high-level commentary and observation.
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Rating: - The Best Book of Its Kind I Know
This short, inexpensive book contains the best collection of anagrams and palindromes I have ever seen. My copy is dog-eared from repeated use. The book contains an enormous amount of top-notch palindromes that are far from over-familiar. Some samples:
* A new order began; a more Roman age bred Rowena.
* A dog, a pant, a panic in a Patna pagoda.
Those samples may strike you as silly and meaninglesss, in which you are not a palindrome person, and this book is not for ... Read More
Rating: - A must for wordplay enthusiasts.
Howard W. Bergerson, former editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, presents more than a thousand anagrams and hundreds of palindromes (with sources, where known).
This volume (an inspiration for many books including Michaelsen's "Words at Play" and Jon Agee's collections) is a must for wordplay enthusiasts, especially those with a penchant for these particular curiosities.
You will get your money's worth on this one.
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