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A “coffee bean” is “the seed or fruit” of “any of several Old World tropical plants (genus Coffea and especially C. arabica and C. canephora) of the madder family that are widely cultivated in warm regions for their seeds from which coffee is prepared.” (I’m from the madder family too when I don’t get my coffee!) A “coughy” bean is the “edible seed from a coffee tree” which is “expelling air from the lungs suddenly with an explosive noise.” Cover your mouth when you cough! Thanks a latte. Definitions of “coffee,” “cough,” and “bean” used by Permission from Merriam Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition © 2007 by Merriam-Webster, Inc. (www.Merriam-Webster.com).
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Literally Speaking and Literally Speaking Too are books which consist of a total of 200 artistic depictions of clichés (expressions we’ve used so much that we take the meaning for granted), idioms (vernacular particular to a geographical region), plays on homophones (using identically-sounding words for their alternate meanings), and/or use of terms ironically (to express something other than the literal meaning).
The website address is at least a quadruple pun (GetLiterallySpeaking.org): you get it (gain control of the book by picking it up), you get it (you understand it!), you get it (you buy it) and you get literally speaking (as in, you start doing it!). The website is designed for an ongoing exploration of language and a really good time.
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100 illustrations in each book!
Ages 10.5-ish to 105
This Week In a Word
Spun Soliloquies
Economy of Language
A Whole Other Level of Clever
English & Indo-European Language
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