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Horrible Words: A Guide to the Misuse of English by Rebecca Gowers
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The TimesNothing inflames the language purists like an illogical irregardless or a hideous otherization. But is it enough simply to dismiss these words... -
Writing Prompts Gone Wild by Aaron Barry 9781777192709
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777192709Author Aaron BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Prompts Gone WildPublisher Prompts Gone WildWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Teach Your Cat Guernesiais by Anne Cakebread 9781800992023
Booksplease Price: $12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992023Author Anne CakebreadFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 148mm * 105mm * 10mm -
Sweary Cats by Andrew Davies
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.25Underneath that chilled exterior is a potty-mouthed mouser ready to let rip. Sweary Cats features over 60 fabulous felines itching and scratching to tell it like it is, either through withering sarcasm or deeply insulting remarks. Cats may... -
The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times by Paul Anthony Jones
Booksplease Price: $30.64Open The Cabinet of Calm to find a comforting word that's equal to your troubles. ; Beginning with the griefs or discomforts we all feel on difficult days, Paul Anthony Jones offers us a matching linguistic remedy: fifty-one soothing words for troubled... -
Dirty Sign Language: Everyday Slang from 'What's Up?' to 'F*%# Off' by Van James T.
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569757864Author Van James TFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 120g -
The Sweary Word Puzzle Book (For Adults) by C. Hill 9781529927078
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34Modern Life is stressful. We all need to let off steam sometimes.In these pages, you will find many sweary word games to test the mind and bring you a sense of calm. Cursing is not big and it's not clever...Well, crack these puzzles to prove otherwise... -
The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between: Volume II by Patrick Foote 9781642506815
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.44Dive Into the Fun Facts Behind Names and Word Origins#1 Bestseller in Words, Language & Grammar, Etymology The best-selling book is back in it's second volume with more names, more words, and even more in-between than before!What's in a name? The answer... -
The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions: Discover the True Stories Behind the English Language's 64 Most Popular Sayings by James McGuire 9781732512603
Booksplease Price: $27.68The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origin stories behind the English language's most common sayings!Nobody thinks twice about sayings like bite the bullet and the cat's out of the... -
The Dictionary of 1980s Slang by Rick Carlile 9781949117219
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949117219Author Rick CarlileFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Carlile MediaPublisher Carlile MediaWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm -
Pit Talk by Natalie Braber 9781910551806
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910551806Author Natalie BraberFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books -
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $43.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679418603Author Karen Elizabeth GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
How to Be Massive by Aoife Dooley
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.11You know your one Nikita? You've seen her around town: always within 100 metres of Penneys (where she likes to spend her 'eurdos'), her hair done up in a 'hun bun', sporting her 'masso' runners and her eyebrows on fleek. In How to be Massive Nikita... -
Pocket Guide to Scottish Words Iseabail Macleod 9780955259906
RRP: $8.38Booksplease Price: $7.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955259906Author Iseabail MacleodFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Richard Drew LtdPublisher Richard Drew Ltd -
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch by David Crystal
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.68Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this intriguing book, David Crystal shows how our feelings about... -
The Ultimate Guide to British Insults: A Delightful Collection of Jabs & Witty Put-Downs Michael Baker 9781684818716
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684818716Format HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Yellow Pear PressPublisher Yellow Pear Press -
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell by Gabe Henry 9780063360211
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $35.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063360211Author Gabe HenryFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 359gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
Lag's Lexicon: A Comprehensive Dictionary and Encyclopædia of the English Prison of To-day by Paul Tempest 9781032574608
Booksplease Price: $231.80Originally published in 1950, this Lag's Lexicon was compiled for a variety of reasons, with the object of entertainment, amusement, or enlightenment. The amateur authority on slang could derive pleasure in picking it to pieces and finding words which,... -
Teach Your Dog Jèrriais by Anne Cakebread 9781800994430
Booksplease Price: $12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994430Author Anne CakebreadFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss 9781592402038
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of British Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9781592402038Author Lynne TrussFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams)... -
Original Dancehall Dictionary: Talk like a Jamaican by Shawn Grant 9789766107710
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789766107710Author Shawn GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Yard PublicationsPublisher Yard PublicationsWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Little Book of Bullshit: A Load of Lies too Good to be True by Orange Hippo! 9781800695450
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.63The Golden Age of Bullshit.Welcome to the golden age of bullshit, a wiki-wild world knee deep in half-truths and alternative facts, spin and bias, influence and insincerity, little white lies and tall tales, falsehoods and propaganda, and all sorts of... -
The Hipster Handbook Robert Lanham 9781400032013
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032013Author Robert LanhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 193g -
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage with a French and Spanish Supplement by Richard Allsopp 9789766401450
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $57.56The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage is the first attempt for over four hundred years to provide an authentic record of current English from the Caribbean archipelago, Guyana and Belize. Drawing its data from a broad range of enquiry through teacher... -
Lady Scandal: Steamy Hot LOL Regency Romance by Larissa Lyons 9780983471165
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983471165Author Larissa LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Literary MadnessPublisher Literary MadnessWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Put The Kettle On: An American's Guide to British Slang, Telly and Tea by Trish Taylor 9781732865549
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $29.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732865549Author Trish TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint PutkettleonbooksPublisher PutkettleonbooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Sex Trump and Gin: Plus One Hundred Thousand Other Words and Phrases Chosen Mostly at Random by Steve Martin 9781999730376
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999730376Author Steve MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint RelativisticPublisher RelativisticWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 12mm -
Lucifer's Lexicon: The Portable L.A. Rollins by L a Rollins 9781943687176
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $29.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943687176Author L a RollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Underworld AmusementsPublisher Underworld AmusementsWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)... -
Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything by Ken Jennings
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $25.94A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in "lively, insightful, and crawling with goofy factlings," (Maria Semple,... -
Talk Like a Californian: A Hella Fresh Guide to Golden State Speak by Helena Ventura
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938849855Author Helena VenturaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Prospect Park BooksPublisher Prospect Park BooksWeight(grams) 141g -
Random Oddities by Ltd Publications International 9781450875554
RRP: $35.66Booksplease Price: $35.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450875554Author Publications International LtdFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Publications International, LimitedPublisher Publications... -
How to Speak Southern by Mitchelle 9780553275193
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553275193Author Steve MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 57gDimensions(mm) 174mm *... -
Manglish: Malaysian English At Its Wackiest (New Edition) by Su Kim Lee 9789819826520
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43The bestseller Manglish: Malaysian English at its Wackiest is back, with more new words, hilarious expressions and idioms. Packed with humour, irreverence and fun, as well as cultural idiosyncrasies, it bids us all to lighten up, laugh at ourselves and... -
Viz 45th Anniversary. Roger's Profanisaurus: Turtlehead Revisited: It’s a big one! Viz Comic’s largest ever encyclopaedia of bad language. by Viz Magazine 9781916421967
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $38.12Roger's Profanisaurus has long been one of the most popular sections in Viz Comic. And now, as the magazine celebrates its 45th year disgracing the shelves of shops in Britain and around the world, we're pushing out our beefiest ever volume of foulage -... -
Meet the Dog that Didn't Sh*t: 101 Reflections on Words and Their Magic by Gordon S Jackson 9781684338627
Booksplease Price: $27.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684338627Author Gordon S JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Black Rose WritingPublisher Black Rose WritingWeight(grams) 340g -
They Said It Their Way: The Official Tennessee Book of By-Words and Old Sayings by Edwin Garrett 9781604149548
Booksplease Price: $57.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604149548Author Edwin GarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Fideli Publishing Inc.Publisher Fideli Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 544g -
Teatime With Mrs. Grammar Person by Barbara Venkataraman 9784867526590
RRP: $43.03Booksplease Price: $32.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867526590Author Barbara VenkataramanFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 268g -
Let's Eat!: Tortured English on Chinese Menus by John H Rydzewski 9781087937755
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087937755Author John H RydzewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Indy PubPublisher Indy PubWeight(grams) 216g -
Teatime With Mrs. Grammar Person by Barbara Venkataraman 9784867526576
Booksplease Price: $18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867526576Author Barbara VenkataramanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 73g -
Why Do We Say The Things We Say? 101 Fully Illustrated Explanations of the Things We All Say Every Day by Graham Hodson 9798223764533
RRP: $22.03Booksplease Price: $20.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223764533Author Graham HodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rockwood PublishingPublisher Rockwood PublishingWeight(grams) 304g