Book
The African svelte : ingenious misspellings that make surprising sense
Publication Information
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Physical Description
xxvii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Summary
Inspired by the author's tenure at "The New Yorker," a collection of whimsical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English includes entries ranging from "exit Jesus" and "doggy-dog world" to "for all intensive purposes" and "dairy airs."