TY - BOOK AU - Menaker,Daniel TI - The African Svelte: ingenious misspellings that make surprising sense SN - 9780544800632 PY - 2016///] CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - English language KW - Orthography and spelling KW - Humor KW - Spelling errors N2 - Inspired by the author's tenure at "The New Yorker," a collection of whimsical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English includes entries ranging from "exit Jesus" and "doggy-dog world" to "for all intensive purposes" and "dairy airs." ER -