Preface Part I: Aims and Evidence 1. Welcome to Dictionopolis 2. Links in the Chain 3. Programming Dumbella Part II: Basic Ingredients 4. Slippery Customers 5. Bad Birds and Better Birds 6. The Primordial Atomic Globule Hunt 7. Word Webs 8. What is a Bongaloo, Daddy? 9. Lexical all-sorts 10. Bits of Words 11. Taking care of the sounds 12. Aggergog Miggers, Wips and Guks Part III: Novelties 13. Interpreting ice-cream cones 14. Globbering Mattresses Part IV: The Overall Picture 15. Seeking and Finding 16. Recognizing words 17. Odd arrangements and funny solutions 18. Last word Index.