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Wicked Words Makeover edition Cover

Wicked Words is a Horrible Histories book written by Terry Deary about linguistics. The chapters go in an A-Z style. It was first published on the 19th of July 1996. On the 2nd of June 2011 it was republished in a new look.

Description[]

Learn what to do if someone calls you...

Illustrators: Philip Reeve and Martin Brown

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The English language

Contents[]

  • Introduction - 7
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    Original Cover for Wicked Words

  • Timeline - 12
  • Awful
  • Blood
  • Chaucer's Chicken - 26
  • Clever Caxton - 31
  • Daft - 33
  • Deads - 43
  • - 48
  • Speech - 56
  • Foreign Languages - 63
  • Groovy Games with Wicked Words - 65
  • Gruesome Wicked Grammar - 74
  • Hocus Wicked Pocus - 76
  • Ice-cool Wicked Invaders - 79
  • Interesting Wicked Initials - 82
  • Jolly Wicked Jargon - 85
  • Jesting Wicked Johnson - 91
  • Knock-knock Wicked - 94
  • Lousy Wicked Latin - 97
  • Muddled Mrs Malaprop - 98
  • Nasty

Additional info[]

  • ISBN: 9781407111933
  • For ages 8+
  • Paperback
  • 192 Pages
  • Releases: 19 July 1996 (For Original Edition) and 2nd June 2011
  • Author: Terry Deary
  • Illustrators: Philip Reeve and Martin Brown (Martin Brown for Front Cover of new look edition)
  • Dimensions: 13.5 x 1.2 x 21.6 CM
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