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'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...

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Underneath 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...

Open 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...

Apologies 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

Modern 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...

Dive 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 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...

Apologies 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

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You 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...

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Pronunciation 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...

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Originally 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,...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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)...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Apologies 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

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A 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,...

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The 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...

Roger'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 -...

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