'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.
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""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.