Ragains, Patrick

These are just some of the odd and fascinating observations featured in this book. For the past three decades rookie author Patrick Ragains has been plotting to unleash his unique (and sometimes controversial) insights about our language...our words, names and phrases. He has tried to make sense of them and organize them all here in Lexicon: American Style. Ragains has compiled lists, chapters and brief essays about our lexicon that amuses, confuses and defuses him. His subjects range from "Words That Go Against Our Spelling Rules" to "New Combo-Words" to "WTF Sports Team Names."..and as part