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The Secret Life of the English Language: Buttering Parsnips and Twocking Chavs
Martin H. Manser
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Description for The Secret Life of the English Language: Buttering Parsnips and Twocking Chavs
Paperback. A more-ishly browsable collection of words and phrases, linguistic quirks, lexical oddities and syntactic surprises. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
A more-ishly browsable collection of words and phrases, linguistic quirks, lexical oddities and syntactic surprises.
Our langauge 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 cliches, catchphrases, proverbs, eponyms, acronyms, spoonerisms and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753824177
SKU
KSS0000144
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Martin H. Manser
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 organizations. He and his wife live in Aylesbury and have a son and a daughter.
Reviews for The Secret Life of the English Language: Buttering Parsnips and Twocking Chavs
[a] tasty gallimaufry of linguistic oddities
INDEPENDENT
an entertaining compendium showing, above all else, that words have a matchless power to entertain
HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER
INDEPENDENT
an entertaining compendium showing, above all else, that words have a matchless power to entertain
HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER