Language is a means of communication, but a good deal of language use is deliberately obscure if not actually encrypted in some form of cipher or code.
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Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols
2011, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents
Illustrations
Page ix
Acknowledgements
Page xi
1.
On being mysterious
Page 1
2.
From anagrams to cryptic crosswords
Page 7
3.
Talking in riddles
Page 41
4.
Ciphers and codes
Page 72
5.
Biblical secrets
Page 114
6.
Words of power
Page 128
7.
Words to avoid
Page 171
8.
Jargon, slang, argot, and 'secret languages'
Page 195
9.
The everyday oblique
Page 241
10.
Elusive allusions
Page 265
11.
Finale
Page 291
Appendix: answsers to the problems
Page 298
Select bibliography
Page 304
Index
Page 321
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-320) and index.
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