Words! Words! Words! - Words are fun! Words understood, explained, defined, differentiated, used, abused; words of great writers and poets, words of schoolboys and girls; descriptive, active, perceptive, living words - these are the themes of Dr. Andrew Scotland's book. By examples, suggestions, exercises, narrative, poetry and above all by humour, he seeks to rouse the reader to an  interest in and a right use of words. The approach is daring: schoolboy puns jostle with sublime passages from the great masters of words; lighthearted sketches offset thorough and scholarly examinations of the derivations of words, and Greek and Latin prefixes and suffixes.