For much more, sneak between the covers of this unique and laugh-out-loud book. The Cunning LinguistAuthor(s): Richard LedererHave some fun with your native tongueIn The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows. Shop for the perfect cunning linguist gift from our wide selection of designs, or create your own. The four stages of a couple's sex life: Under 35: Tri-weekl圓5-45: Try weekly45-55: Try weakly55 and over: Try, try, try. Cunning Linguist Jokes Little Johnny is a cunning linguist I wasted my life My father is really fond of dirty jokes. Have you heard about the incompatible couple?He had no income, and she wasn't pattable. Here's a taste of The Cunning Linguist: Q: What does a man have in his pants that you can also find on a pool table?A: Pockets. This book of good, clean dirty fun will delight word hounds, punsters, bachelor-party goers, and anyone who likes a clever grown-up joke. Anka Radakovichs essay On Being a Cunning Linguist, and Frank Zappas tale of The.
Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows us the naughtier side of wordplay, revealing hundreds of hilarious, ingenious, unabashed, and adults-only puns, jokes, limericks, one-liners, and other adventures in sexual humor. Be mindful when sharing personal information, including your religious or political views, health, racial background, country of origin, sexual identity and/or. never resorting to back room jokes or adolescent snickering.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. After all, "a dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste."Ĭopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. How about the "poonerism" (that's what Lederer dubs a dirty spoonerism, or juxtaposition of sounds within a word or sentence) that defines call girls as "the lays of our dives" and a bordello as a "toll-cookie house"? Or the list of limericks and the pun-filled "delectable daughter" jokes? Lederer strives to illuminate the "verbal vivacity of our vocabulary and illustrate one of the most astonishing miracles of language-the ability of two or more meanings to occupy the same space at the same time." Blending the richness of English with the seemingly endless supply of raunchy word tricks, the author takes pride in providing humorous, but never hurtful verbal wit, all in the name of fun and education. As long as one doesn't overdose on more than two chapters at a time (as the author warns one should not), this book repeatedly rewards the open-minded. Noted linguist Lederer (Anguished English) has a naughty side, which, combined with his unerring archival instincts, makes this collection of wordplays a bawdily noteworthy achievement. He lives with his wife Simone in San Diego. His syndicated column, "Looking at Language," appears in newspapers and magazines nationwide, and he co-hosts a weekly show on San Diego and Wisconsin public radio. Richard Lederer is the author of more than thirty books on the English language, including Anguished English, which is one of the best-selling language humor books in print.
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