The Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words is an outlandish lexicon which will captivate, amuse, astonish and delight logophiles (word lovers) and logolators (word worshippers) everywhere.

          Among the many subjects covered are insomnia, phobias, manias, governments and animals – and, of course, words about words. There are two-letter and vowel-less words, archaic words, and words on sex and marriage. The final chapter covers the fascinating subject of types of wordplay, including chronograms, lipograms, pangrams, and palindromes. This last word on the odd word is illustrated with 19 amusing drawings.