By Rod L. Evans
Welcome to the bizarre and lovely international of phrases!
Tyrannosaurus Lex is your consultant to the fascinating global of logology—the pursuit of notice puzzles or complicated words—featuring:
•A wealth of witty anagrams, palindromes, and puns
•Clever paraprosdokians: sentences with striking endings (“I’ve had a superbly impressive night, yet this wasn’t it.”—Groucho Marx)
•Fascinating oronyms: a couple of words that fluctuate in that means and spelling, but percentage an analogous pronunciation (“The stuffy nostril can result in problems” as opposed to “The stuff he understands can result in problems.”)
•Peculiar oxymora: phrases or words which are self-contradictory (Jumbo shrimp! visitor host! Gold silverware!)
So relax and prepare to benefit approximately every little thing from antigrams and aptanagrams to kangaroo phrases and phantonyms. You’ll by no means examine language an analogous back!
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