The Secret Life of the English Language
Buttering Parsnips and Twocking Chavs
$20.92
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2008
Summary
Our language is one of delight and curiosity. BUTTERING PARSNIPS, TWOCKING CHAVS is a guided tour of English, exploring the origins of words, their changing meaning, lexical peculiarities, word games and lost words, presented in lists, small passages of narrative text, amusing quotations and nuggets of amazing facts.
This must-have compendium shows that words have a matchless power to entertain. Here you will find enough new words and phrases to last a lifetime. Idioms frolic beside c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753824177 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753824175 |
| Author: | Martin H. Manser, David Pickering |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 162mm x 22mm |
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[a] tasty gallimaufry of linguistic oddities
[a] tasty gallimaufry of linguistic oddities - INDEPENDENT
an entertaining compendium showing, above all else, that words have a matchless power to entertain - HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINERAbout The Author
Martin H. Manser
David Pickering is an experienced reference book compiler, freelance since 1992. He has contributed (often as sole author or chief editor) to around 200 books in the fields of general reference, English language, the arts, history and popular interest. He has also broadcast many times on a variety of subjects on radio and television. He lives in Buckingham with his wife and two sons.
Martin H. Manser has been a professional reference book editor since 1980. He has compiled or edited more than 150 reference books, particularly English-language dictionaries, thesauruses and Bible reference titles. He is also a language trainer and consultant with national companies and organisations. He and his wife live in Aylesbury and have a son and a daughter.
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