{"product_id":"9781855683198","title":"Gervase Phinn's Mangled English: A lighthearted look at the mishandling of the English language by \"the man with the funny name\"","description":"Sometimes what we say and write can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding and unintentional humour, as bestselling author and former school inspector Gervase Phinn shows in his book 'Gervase Phinn's Mangled English', a humorous anthology of the mistakes, misprints, malapropisms and misunderstandings in the English language. It includes book requests ('Lionel Richie's Wardrobe by Cecily Lewis') and book titles (Handbook for the Limbless); people's names (Nora Bone); proverbs ('If he died with a face like that, nobody would wash the corpse'); spoonerisms ('The British Broadcorping Castration'); classroom howlers ('A fibula is a small lie'); malapropisms ('She's got a congenial disease') and euphemisms ('I'm off to shed a tear for Nelson'); newspaper misprints ('New research into causes of dysexlia'); and epitaphs ('He died in peace. His wife died first').","brand":"Country Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176085111024,"sku":"9781855683198","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781855683198_p0.jpg?v=1763598213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781855683198","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}