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Odd Bird

“Odd bird” usually refers to “a peculiar person.”  It is also “any of a class (Aves) of warm-blooded vertebrates distinguished by having the body more or less completely covered with feathers and the forelimbs modified as wings” which is “atypical of that which is normal or expected.” 

Five birds are also an odd number – “not exactly divisible by two” – unless you are Dick Cheney. 

Definitions of “odd [number]” and “bird” used by Permission from Merriam Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition © 2007 by Merriam-Webster, Inc. (www.Merriam-Webster.com).

Definition of “odd bird” and first definition of “odd” (as atypical) is author’s own

You will find this on the cover page of “Literally Speaking”—Did you get it? 

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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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