Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: The Secret Life Of The English Language / Digital original - eBook
Stock No: WW62126EB
Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: The Secret Life Of The English Language / Digital original - eBook  -

Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: The Secret Life Of The English Language / Digital original - eBook

Weidenfeld & Nicolson / 2008 / ePub

In Stock
Stock No: WW62126EB

Buy Item Our Price$1.99
In Stock
Stock No: WW62126EB
Weidenfeld & Nicolson / 2008 / ePub
Add To Cart

or checkout with

Add To Wishlist
Add To Cart

or checkout with

Wishlist

Have questions about eBooks? Check out our eBook FAQs.

* This product is available for purchase only in the USA.
* This product is not eligible for promotional discount offers.

Product Information

Title: Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: The Secret Life Of The English Language / Digital original - eBook
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780297856863
ISBN-13: 9780297856863
Stock No: WW62126EB

Publisher's Description

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 split infinitives. Text messages cavort alongside business jargon and rap slang to produce a language that is both witty and bizarre, and sometimes frankly outstanding.

So whether you're a yuppie or a woopie, a sinbad or dinky, a spod or even a wazzock, these pages will provide endless hours of delight and fascination.

Author Bio

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.

Ask a Question

Author/Artist Review