Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language

‘No matter how eloquently a dog
may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.’

Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun.

Join Gyles Brandreth - wit and
word-meister, Just A Minute
regular, One Show reporter, denizen
of Countdown’s Dictionary Corner,
founder of the National Scrabble Championships, patron of The Queen’s English Society, QI, Room 101, Have I Got
News For You and Pointless survivor - on an uproarious and unexpected magic carpet ride around the awesome world
of words and wordplay.

Puns,
palindromes, pangrams, Malaprops,
euphemisms, mnemonics, acronyms, anagrams, alphabeticals, Tweets, verbiage,
verbarrhea - if you can name it, you should find it here, along with the
longest, shortest, wittiest, wildest, oldest, latest, oddest, most
interesting and most memorable words in the English language - the richest,
most remarkable language ever known.