TY - BOOK AU - Chace,Howard L. AU - Doremus,Hal TI - Anguish Languish AV - PS PY - 2021/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Fairy tales -- Humor KW - English language -- Humor KW - Nursery rhymes -- Humor N1 - Anguish Languish at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguish_Languish; Release date is 2021-01-31; Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Anguish Languish" by Howard L. Chace is a book published in 1956. It presents a playful linguistic experiment where familiar stories and nursery rhymes are rewritten using English words that sound like the originals but have completely different meanings. Created to demonstrate how intonation shapes meaning in spoken English, Chace's homophonic transformations turn "Little Red Riding Hood" into "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" and other delightful nonsense. The result is both a serious study of language and an unexpectedly humorous collection. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64432 ER -