If you love words, or if you teach English, this is a great book to have in your library. From the jacket, "Containing infinitely varied examples of the agony, ecstasy, freakishness and fun of the English language to warm the hearts, prick the minds, and stir the risibilities of rhymesters, punsters, scholars, schoolboys, slangers, scrabblers, wallflowers, wits and wordgamesmen of every kind."