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Pablo Domínguez's Concise PUN-ishing Dictionary is the perfect book for lovers of language play and puns. The definitions are amusing and entertaining. They extend earlier contributions to the field in a playful and insightful manner. The accompanying pictures are delightful and fun, but they are also professional. The allusions are very smart. For example, a "Congergation" is a "school of large marine eels who meet together to 'pray'." Caution: If you read too many of these "groaners," you'll have difficulty wiping the smile from your face. Don L. F. Nilsen, Professor of English at ASU Emeritus College, Founder of the International Society for Humor Studies Concise PUN-ishing Dictionary is more than extraordinary - unique, creative, an absolute bonanza for politicians, comedians, script writers, fiction writers - the kind of tool that anyone wanting to entertain will want. Mary Willix, Hypnotherapist in Lafayette, Colorado, USA "No language-lover can fail to be enchanted by this true fictionary, which is a real delight. It appeals irresistibly to the imagination but perhaps even more to that impish sense of mischief and subversion that we have never grown (groan?) out of... Health warning to readers: it is highly contagious. So finishing the book is not the end either, merely the prelude to your own personal ventures. A punny mind is a joy forever! " Brian Fox, Director, DG Interpretation, European Commission This book is precisely what it claims to be: a “Pun-ishing Dictionary” designed to skewer the ironies of human behaviour using the foibles of the English language. Reading it is pure delight. You don’t need to wait until you have some free time to enjoy Pablo's gifted insights into the nature of modern life as captured in puns: take the book with you wherever you go, on the bus, train or plane, at home or abroad, in order first to laugh and then to think seriously. Jessica Milner Davis (author of Farce, 1978, 2003) Pablo Domínguez has managed to assemble a substantial number of hilarious, exhilarating and fascinating verbal cocktails that may cause a humourrhage when you read them. As a professional linguist, my approach to language is not only theoretical; I am also interested in how languages are learnt and taught. In this respect, I strongly recommend his Concise PUN-ishing Dictionary to both teachers and advanced learners of English as a most efficient teaching tool to motivate students and help them learn, and even create themselves new words in an amusing way. Ignacio Bosque, Universidad Complutense and Real Academia Española

Concise Pun-ishing Dictionary for English Speakers by Pablo Domínguez

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