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  2. Malapropism - Wikipedia

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    The correct word in question is actually infested. Emily Litella , a fictional character created and performed by American comedian Gilda Radner used malapropism to entertain viewers on the late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live , [ 17 ] including one skit in which she was puzzled over the hubbub surrounding the "plight of Soviet jewelry ...

  3. I Funny - Wikipedia

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    I Funny: A Middle School Story, also known as I Funny, is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. [1] It was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2012. It was followed by I Even Funnier (2013), I Totally Funniest (2015), I Funny TV (2016), I Funny: School of Laughs (2017) and The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I ...

  4. Inherently funny word - Wikipedia

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    The funniest nonsense words tended to be those that reminded people of real words that are considered rude or offensive. [13] [14] This category included four of the top-six nonsense words that were rated the funniest in the experiment: "whong", "dongl", "shart" (now slang, not a nonsense word [15]), and "focky". [13]

  5. Novella - Wikipedia

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    There is disagreement regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel. [2] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words; [ 3 ] [ 4 ] at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages.

  6. Mad Libs - Wikipedia

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    The cover of the first Stern and Price Mad Libs book Mad Libs is a word game created by Leonard Stern and Roger Price. It consists of one player prompting others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story before reading aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or as a pastime. It can be categorized as a phrasal template game. The game was invented in the United States ...

  7. Unseen (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    A boy gets a job fishing with triplet brothers. He gets a crush on their sister, though the brothers really hate it when anyone kisses her. One day, while fishing, they find a seashell that has an eye in it; whenever the shell opens, the nearest person sees a vision about something that does eventually come true.

  8. Charlie Brown's Super Book of Questions and Answers

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    The content is presented as a series of questions pertaining to the subject of the particular chapter of the books. Amid the questions, pictures and photographs, there are details from established comic strips and complete comic strips, occasionally with its dialogue adjusted to the chapter's theme.

  9. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    [18] The word "but" suffers from similar misconceptions. Garner says, "It is a gross canard that beginning a sentence with but is stylistically slipshod. In fact, doing so is highly desirable in any number of contexts, as many style books have said (many correctly pointing out that but is more effective than however at the beginning of a ...