The African Svelte : ingenious misspellings that make surprising sense / Daniel Menaker ; illustrations by Roz Chast ; foreword by Billy Collins.

By: Menaker, Daniel [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 225 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780544800632Subject(s): English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Humor | Spelling errors -- HumorGenre/Form: Humor. DDC classification: 428.102/07 Summary: Inspired by the author's tenure at "The New Yorker," a collection of whimsical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English includes entries ranging from "exit Jesus" and "doggy-dog world" to "for all intensive purposes" and "dairy airs."
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Inspired by the author's tenure at "The New Yorker," a collection of whimsical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English includes entries ranging from "exit Jesus" and "doggy-dog world" to "for all intensive purposes" and "dairy airs."

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