Este libro aporta un listado completo de curiosidades lingüísticas como son:  homófonos, homógrafos y homónimos.

Some foreign students find English very difficult, some others find it quite easy. There is one thing, however, on which they all agree: English sounds are vague, complicated, often confusing and totally inconsistent as regards punctuation.
Part of the reason for that lies in the richness of the language in onomatopoeic words, for example: the crashing of broken glass, the hissing of escaping steam or the banging of a door.
These words and many more were originally formed from the sounds made by the things they refer to.
Something very similar happens with the sounds made by animals. Anybody will understand that a lion roars, a cat mews or purrs, an elephant trumpets or a frog croaks.
The chaotic pronunciation of English has a very good example in the word live. Using it as a verb, to live is pronounced with a short -i, but if we use it as a noun, the lives, the sound is -ai. Things get even worse when we want to use the 3rd person of the present: he lives. In this case the pronunciation reverts to -i.
This book is an exhaustive compilation of the most curious words that can be found in the language. It will serve students as a reference when they want to find the correct word to use. It will also help the teacher who wants to show pupils the oddities of the language.
In the book you will find:
• Sounds that are written in four different ways: e.g. -i (key, me, meat, see) or -e ­(first, hurt, sir, purse).
• Words that rhyme although their spelling is quite different: ache-lake; blood-mud; ferry-bury; lord-sword.
• Words of similar derivation but with different meanings: official (authoritative, professional) - officer (military man); effective (potent) 
- efficient (competent).
• Homophones, i.e. words with similar pronunciation but different meanings: affect (to influence) 
- effect (result).
• Homographs, i.e. words with the same spelling but different meanings: bow (device for shooting arrows), bow  (front part of a ship), bow (to bend over).
• Homonyms, i.e. words spelt and pronounced the same but with a different meaning: bark (dogs do that) - bark (the shell of a tree).
• A list of collective nouns, e.g. a herd of cattle, a horde of savages, a pack of wolves.
• Compound words and foreign words which have irregular plurals: manservant / menservants; 
father-in-law / fathers-in-law.
• A list of common jobs.
• Examples of how to use many common prepositions, which often create particular difficulties for students.
• Examples of the three different ways to pronounce the -ed of regular verbs in the past simple.
• Examples of how to use the verbs make and do in various contexts.
• Verbs that double the final consonant in the past tense and present participle.
•Simple explanations of the most common idiomatic expressions.
All these oddities together in one book make Odds and Ends an important reference work for writers, journalists and advanced students in general.