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Author Menaker, Daniel, author.

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

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  428.1 MENAKER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  428.1 MEN    Storage
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  428.102 MEN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  428.1 MENAKER    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  428.102 MENAKER    Check Shelf
Description xxvii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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."
Subject English language -- Humor.
English language -- Orthography and spelling -- Humor.
Added Author Chast, Roz, illustrator.
ISBN 9780544800632
054480063X
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