The Secret Life of the English Language: Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs

by Martin H. Manser and David Pickering

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0753824175

ISBN13:9780753824177

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:Phoenix Press (UK)

Length:271 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"

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