Resumo de Oxford Guide To Word Games

The Oxford Guide to Word Games is an amusing book to read on a dull day without much
planning you can proceed as follows:

Concrete Poetry: well I am a poet and dont I know it and dont we all love to write and read and enjoy
concrete poetry with use of: and we can include in that remark the use of ...

Anagrams:

The Mouse's Tale taken from Victorian times it is a quotation from Lewis Carroll's /Alice In Wonderland/
Shaped poetry as follows and write as follows ...

I
love
a
good
book .......................on ... a ...wet ... day .... I
sit
in
a
chair
put my feet up
... and...enjoy...a....good....book

Great fun for talking through and reading to friends and colleagues alike! You know how colleagues at the Office often get bored with your copy of THE TIMES lying there for all to see in a prominent place on your desk beside the photograph of your mother on one side of the desk and your wife and family on the other .. well that should engage everybody's interest!

If you are at the Christmas Party include a few Tongue Twisters --- see Word Games again ... for suggestions as follows:
Tongue Twisters and Cumulative Games for example ...

venez ici, sans souci, vous ... partires d'ici sans six sous . how's that for starters !!! Let's continue then as follows: ...

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers:
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked:
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked!

Tongue twisters are evident in most languages including ours ... English!

Let's move on to read further in this engaging little book ...
Spoonerism:

/what chain of shops suggests that bald birds are beating up scientists/ ... Boots Cash Chemists ...(coots bash chemist)

And with a great compliment paid to me this weekend by a charming young man all the way from Columbia in connection with my obvious wit and flair in the field of Shakespearian Plays, poems, sonnets and verses ... I note with interest reference to
Puns and Punning in this book of Word Games ....
question: What part of England has most dogs?
answer: Berkshire!

HA! HA! HA!

Happy reading today in The Oxford Guide to Word Games written by Tony Augarde - great fun altogether ... keep on reading ...

Resumos Relacionados