What is it?
A collection of some 5,000 words (homophones, homonyms, and homographs), with a full and mischievous amount of mishearings, mispronunciations, acronyms, spoonerisms, malapropisms and chinese whispers.
Tunstill's Dislexicon is a collection of words and phrases in common usage in the English language which sound and often look similar, but aren't!
Which witch? Lead the charge and get the lead out of your boots and slip the lead on the dog of war. Get some flour for the bread and a flower for the vase. The wrecks included the good ship Rex.
An example:
Abeam: level with, abreast, alongside.
A beam: a ray of light.
A beam: a baulk of timber.
Abeam the lighthouse they saw a beam of light before they hit a beam.
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It is also:An anthology of easy mistakes, confusions, mishearings and misunderstandings in the English language.
The Dislexicon will provide a useful reference tool for advertising copywriters, rather than copywrighters, and competition entrants desiring tie-breaking slogans; it is a handbook of common errors, will prove useful as reference, and invaluable in any effort to confuse foreign students desiring to learn our mother tongue.
Alternative titles for the Dislexicon could be: A TWISTED TONGUE, CURIOSITIES AND CONFUSIONS OF OUR LANGUAGE; AWAY WITH WORDS, A WAY WITH WORDS, or AWEIGH WITH WORDS; or even, ENGLISH, A COARSE FOR 'UMAN BEANS.
Sometimes referred to as homonyms, homophones and homographs, those words which look, sound or are written similarly, but often have different pronunciations and meanings, are gathered in the Dislexicon, those words and phrases in common usage, which sound and often look similar, but aren't! The work also contains some 5,000 possible confusions and an assortment of Malapropisms, Spoonerisms, Howlers, Double Entendre, Chinese Whispers and other oddities, in short, a DISLEXICON. |
