This is heard when people misquote the lyrics. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog cant) to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the worlds largest growth industries. A holorime is a line that sounds two distinct ways because of the combination of sounds. The rebus uses letters and symbols to give a coded message, such as is commonly seen in American license plates. The anagram rearranges the letters in a word to describe it. The palindrome is another arduous word game in which a sentence must be read the same backward and forward. Bill Bryson Audio Books Bill Bryson is the New York Times bestselling author of At Home, A Walk in the Woods, The Lost Continent, Made in America, The Mother Tongue, A Short History of Nearly Everything winner of the Aventis Prizeand various other works. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way is a 1990 work of nonfiction by American-British author Bill Bryson.
Another popular word game is Scrabble, which is invented in 1931 and becomes widespread in 1953. Presenting a tour of English from its mongrel origins to its status as the worlds most-spoken tongue its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity.
The crossword puzzle is not accepted as an intellectual exercise until several decades later when intellectual papers such as the London Times and New York Times began printing them.
Bryson describes the history of various word games, beginning with the crossword puzzle, which is invented by an American newspaper editor in 1913. Mother Tongue: The English Language, by Bill Bryson, London: Penguin Books, 1990 (link is to a different, in-print edition).
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