filled with sly observations on the complexities and inexplicable contradictions of the english language, words fail me is the clever brainchild of graphic designer/typographer teresa monachino. set with clear, sans-serif texts, the book displays how the subtlest changes in tone or type can completely alter the meaning of words.

from the phaidon site: questions of spelling, pronunciation or the blatantly nonsensical are illustrated through clever visual representations that are created entirely through artfully manipulated typography. this playful and sometimes hilarious text sorts the homonyms from the heteronyms and introduces the ‘antigram’ (demonstrating how the swift shuffle of certain letters can create words that entirely contradict the first: honestly becomes on the sly, earliest becomes rise late and, fabulously, elvis = lives!).