Anguish Languish by Howard L. Chace

"Anguish Languish" by Howard L. Chace is a book published in 1956. It presents a playful linguistic experiment where familiar stories and nursery rhymes are rewritten using English words that sound like the originals but have completely different meanings. Created to demonstrate how intonation shapes meaning in spoken English, Chace's homophonic transformations turn "Little Red Riding Hood" into "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" and other delightful nonsense. The result is both a serious study of language and an unexpectedly humorous collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Chace, Howard L., 1897-1982
Illustrator Doremus, Hal
LoC No. 56008160
Title Anguish Languish
Note Anguish Languish at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguish_Languish
Credits Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 66.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Fairy tales -- Humor
Subject English language -- Humor
Subject Nursery rhymes -- Humor
Category Text
EBook-No. 64432
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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