'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his
parents were poor but honest.'
Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun.
Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and word-meister, Just A Minute regular,
One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, founder
of the National Scrabble Championships, patron of The Queen's English
Society*, QI, Room 101,* Have I Got News For You and Pointless
survivor - on an uproarious and unexpected magic carpet ride around the
awesome world of words and wordplay.
Puns, palindromes, pangrams, Malaprops, euphemisms, mnemonics,
acronyms, anagrams, alphabeticals, Tweets, verbiage, verbarrhea - if
you can name it, you should find it here, along with the longest,
shortest, wittiest, wildest, oldest, latest, oddest, most interesting
and most memorable words in the English language - the richest, most
remarkable language ever known.