'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, M
alaprops, 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.