Word Drops brings together 1,000 word and language facts—just like those from the HH social feeds—in one long word association chain, so that each fact ‘drops’ into place beside the next.

 

Working its way from aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic and back again, footnotes and annotations are used along the way to flesh out some of the most intriguing entries in the book, adding the kind of background information and context that there just isn’t room for on Twitter and Instagram.

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Here you’ll find out the perfect word for the place you like to go to when you’re angry, what noise dogs make in Malaysia, what hangovers are called in Iceland, how to play a 15-letter word in a game of Scrabble, and what happened when Samuel Johnson was woken up in the middle of night by all his drunk friends.