If you enjoy reading about words, grammar, that sort of thing then give Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, by Bill Bryson a try! It's a delightful collection of words that have been used incorrectly, or spelled incorrectly, often with humorous results. One of those books with short entries that makes it so easy to read during the ads on tv. ;-)

Sometimes, when I'm looking for one thing, I find something else completely, and so it was with Tawdry Knickers and Other Unfortunate Ways to Be Remembered: a Saucy and Spirited History of Ninety Notorious Namesakes, by Alex Novak. Would you want to be connected with, say, the guillotine? The descendants of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin tried for years to get the government to change the name and when that didn't happen, they changed their name instead. I had no idea so many names are part of our language! A most interesting read.

Here's one of those titles that catches your eye ... Carnal Knowledge ... but it's not what you're thinking! The full title is Carnal Knowledge: a Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia, by Charles Hodgson and it is both a dictionary and history of the words for all parts of the human body. Slang terms are included as well as fun things like what, say, "knocked up" means in American English and British English (very different)! There are also emoticons (created with punctuation marks) for various shapes of the derriere. ;-)

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