How many people know how to pronouncehumhumunukunukuapuaa*?How many even know what it is?Bill Casselman does. Dictionary in hand, he'll lead you along the highways and byways of English--the world's wackiest, most widespread language. And those who follow will find their vocabularies replete with sesquipedalian vocables and chock-a-block with euphuistic lexemes of logorrheic.Fromdobdobtodikdikto the outer reaches ofning-nongandprick-me-dainty, in wide-ranging essays explaining hundreds of words and expressions, both common and obscure, Casselman revels in the strange, the surreal, and the mind-bogglingly weird. You are invited to rootle in odd words and to explore amusing anecdotes about familiar phrases (Who knows the origin of the sports phrase "hat trick"?)You'll laugh along with Casselman as he celebrates the wonders, the complexities, and the absurdities of our amazing language.(*Incidentally,humhumunukunukuapuaais a Hawaiian term that means "little trigger fish with a small nose like a pig.")