Introduction; Part I. How Words are Studied: A. What is a word?; B. The internal affairs of words; C. The external affairs of words; Part II. How Words are Carved Out: 1. 1 =2, 5, 6 or 7; 2. Beer eyes and wine-dark sea; 3.

Second cousins twice removed; 4. I have three sons and a child; 5. Concepts on the chopping block; 6. Unripe bananas and ripe tomatoes; 7. Mums and clocks mean death; 8. The past is in front of us and the future is behind our back; 9. Far and wide, here and there; 10. Bottles with throats; 11.

Setting the TV on fire and extinguishing it; Part III. How Things are Done with Words; 12. Traduttore, traditore!; 13. May you suffer and remember; 14. I screw your 300 Gods; 15. Either he is crazy or his feet stink; 16. Shoo and scat; 17. A dog and pony show; 18.

Blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada; 19. Acts of darkness; 20. This for that; 21. Me Tarzan, you Jane; 22. How many languages do you speak?; 23. Harmful and shitty people; Part IV. How Words are Born: 24. Cars with tails and leadfooted drivers; 25.

Monkey, dog, worm, snail, i.e. 'Crazy A'; 26. Rovers and ski-rolls; 27. Extra crispy soccer players; 28. Chinglish and Eurenglish; 29. Comrade, Sir; 30. Beer and whiskey mighty risky; 31.

SOFs and SOWs; Part V. Where Words Live: 32. Old-lady torturers, horse killers, and bad mornings; 33. A fleeing bus; 34. I wish that you enjoy in what you have deserved!; 35. Happy hunting ground; 36. A language is a dialect with an army and navy; Part VI. A Word After: Part VII.

Words about Words.