The Weird and Wonderful World of Words

Weird and Wonderful World of Words - Wild Dog Books

by Charles Hope

Shortlisted, Educational Publishing Awards, Australia

Words are wonderful. They can play tricks on the brain and trip up the tongue. They can be easy to spill yet difficult to spit out. They can cause magic and mayhem, pleasure and pain, and fun and frustration. Welcome to The Weird and Wonderful World of Words.

Key curriculum topics covered in a delightfully clever way.

ISBN 9781742034034
RRP $27.99
Paperback 64pp
Format 300mm x 240mm + flexicover
Photographic junior non-fiction
Category: Words, Language, Grammar, English, General Knowledge

Below is a comprehensive list of sources that were used to make this book. These have been arranged in the order the facts appeared:

Sources

Page 4: Words in a lifetime – Huffington Post
Page 5: Average WPM – WordCounter.net
Page 6: World languages – Ethnologue
Page 8: Early humans – Noam Chomsky via Wikipedia
Page 10: Swearing birds – Treehugger
Page 11: Koko – Daily Mail
Page 12: Cuneiform – Ancient History Encyclopedia
Page 14: Top 5 – Babbel
Page 16: Dictionary – OED and QI
Page 17: New OED words – OED
Page 18: OMG – Huffington Post
Page 20: Titin the Titan – Gizmodo
Page 21: Ajay Shesh – Mumbai Newsbox
Page 22: ABC: Top 3 / Bottom 3 – OED
Page 23: Most common words – Global Language Monitor and OED and Collins Dictionary
Page 25: Age and vocab – The Economist
Page 26: Computer – Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 27: Cerberus – Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 28: Goodbye, Daisy – Online Etymology Dictionary and Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 32: Girl – Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 34: Fast talkers – Slate and Guinness World Records
Page 36: Sign language – Gallaudet University Library
Page 38: The letter ‘S’ – OED
Page 39: 4 words – Bored Panda
Page 40: Placenames – Wikipedia
Page 44: Ghosts – Grammarly
Page 45: Smog – Online Etymology Dictionary
Page 50: Language of the sky – Mental Floss
Page 52: No vowels – Collins English Dictionary
Page 53: Gadsby – Mental Floss
Page 55: Longest palindrome – Norvig.com
Page 56: Cicero – Fun With Words.com
Page 60: Words per day – ABC
Page 62: Sedgwick – Military History Now
Page 63: Mellon – Mental Floss