English for Fun

Foreword: English Can Be Fun! That Sounds Funny ... Funny-Sounding Words - Elephant's at the Rubbity: Rhyming Slang - "Hasta luego cocodrilo" - Tongue Twisters - Wishy-Washy, Arty-Farty - Smash, Bang, Crash, Plop! - Cows Moo, Do You? - What Snew with You? Questionable Quotes Famous Last Words - Bushisms - More Crazy Things People Have Said - Headlines - Bumper Stickers - Silly Signage - Classified Ads - Church Bulletin Typos - Accident Reports - Company Condoms - Pearls of Wisdom - Murphy's Law Translations and Other Misunderstandings Helpful Information for English-Speaking Tourists ... - F---Ing Kinky - Marketing Troubles Colourful Language Colours - Colour Your World with Idioms - Drunk As a Skunk? No. Sick As a Dog! - Welches Tier gehört zu dir? - Animal Idioms - Collective Nouns - Tidbits - Common Yiddish Words - Let's Play Ball - Colourful Comparisons ... Aussie Style - Just as an aside ... Let's Get Silly Books That Were Never Written - Kids' Riddles + Jokes - Slightly More Sophisticated ... Being Indirect Euphemisms - Be Careful What You Say Word Play Anagrams - Spoonerisms - That's a Pun, Son ... - "Can you give me the ... ahh, ummm, the ...?" - Playful Punctuation - Persuasive Punctuation - A Proverb for Every Occasion ... A Poem The English Language Rules for Writers - Conjugating Very Irregular Verbs - Ghoti and Chips? - I Am So Gruntled! - Word Pairs - X Marks the Spot - Proposals for English Language Reform - Making Simple Things Complicated - How to Say Nothing at All, yet Sound Competent - What Academic Writing Really Means ... The Great Generational Detector Communication Questionnaire Games For Further Fun Editorische Notiz

Ruth Kletzander leitet am Internationalen Institut SDI in München den Sprachbereich Englisch. Andrew Williams leitet am Internationalen Institut SDI in München den Sprachbereich Englisch.