2017-12-26
Author: Graeme Garden
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1784756490
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Do words fail you? Never again, once you've become the proud owner of The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary. Every word has a meaning, but over the years those meanings change. Dip into these helpfully illustrated pages and you'll find many of the words you use every day without ever realising that their up-to-date definition is something entirely different. Words like 'bunny' (rather like a bun), or 'cherish' (rather like a chair), 'Cardiology' (the study of knitwear) or 'buggery' (the study of insects), 'Venezuala' (a gondola with a harpoon) or 'Norway' (a Geordie exclamation of surprise), 'ivy' (the Roman for "four") or 'faculty' (cockney for "there's no more PG Tips"). Thanks to The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary you can now use familiar, everyday words in total confidence, fully appraised of their latest meanings. Happy wording!
Author: Graeme Garden
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1784756490
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Do words fail you? Never again, once you've become the proud owner of The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary. Every word has a meaning, but over the years those meanings change. Dip into these helpfully illustrated pages and you'll find many of the words you use every day without ever realising that their up-to-date definition is something entirely different. Words like 'bunny' (rather like a bun), or 'cherish' (rather like a chair), 'Cardiology' (the study of knitwear) or 'buggery' (the study of insects), 'Venezuala' (a gondola with a harpoon) or 'Norway' (a Geordie exclamation of surprise), 'ivy' (the Roman for "four") or 'faculty' (cockney for "there's no more PG Tips"). Thanks to The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary you can now use familiar, everyday words in total confidence, fully appraised of their latest meanings. Happy wording!
Author: Graeme Garden
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473539722
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Do words fail you? Never again, once you've become the proud owner of The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary. Every word has a meaning, but over the years those meanings change. Dip into these helpfully illustrated pages and you'll find many of the words you use every day without ever realising that their up-to-date definition is something entirely different. Words like 'bunny' (rather like a bun), or 'cherish' (rather like a chair), 'Cardiology' (the study of knitwear) or 'buggery' (the study of insects), 'Venezuala' (a gondola with a harpoon) or 'Norway' (a Geordie exclamation of surprise), 'ivy' (the Roman for "four") or 'faculty' (cockney for "there's no more PG Tips"). Thanks to The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary you can now use familiar, everyday words in total confidence, fully appraised of their latest meanings. Happy wording!
Author: Tim Brooke-Taylor
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007263937
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Comedy's most outrageous dictionary is back with a hilarious new collection of definitions for all those English words that don’t seem to have the right meaning. This crafty revision of English vocabulary posits that Platypus should signify “to give your cat pigtails;” that Flemish should mean “rather like snot;” and that Celtic is in fact a prison for fleas. With nearly 600 new definitions, this side-splitting resource pushes the boundaries of the English language to riotous new limits.
Author: John Marchant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Author: Graham Edmonds
Publisher: Harper Uk
ISBN: 9780007193851
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Completely revised and updated to incorporate newer sites as well as favorites in previous years, this is the definitive A-Z on the Internet for young and old. Divided into sections and genres, each site is fully reviewed to show what unique features set it apart from the rest. From music to shopping, finance to travel, the internet covers a bewildering range of topics, but this book will focus on what's really useful and popular. The completely revised and updated 2006 edition will have around 5,000 sites, each of which is rated for content, value, ease of use and speed. A must-have for parents, as well as an invaluable resource for children, this book has universal appeal.
Author: BBC
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1787530051
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The antidote to panel games returns with this sixteenth glorious collection, in which Jack Dee gives regular panelists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden silly things to do. Joining them in this compilation are special guests Rob Brydon, Victoria Wood, Susan Calman and David Mitchell. Highlights include Uxbridge English Dictionary, One Song to the Tune of Another, French Monopoly, Swanee Kazoo, Sound Charades, Pensioner's Film Club, Complete Cats, 84 Chicken Cross Road, Hirsute Film Club, Unromantic Endings, Just a Minim, the delightful Add a Word, Ruin a Film and, of course, Mornington Crescent. Get ready to chuckle along with the gang as they deploy the finest wit and wordplay, accompanied by Colin Sell on the piano and the lovely Samantha keeping score.
Author: John Craig
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: BBC
Publisher: BBC Digital Audio
ISBN: 9781408439272
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages :
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This twelfth collection of the antidote to panel games finds the late Humphrey Lyttelton giving regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden silly things to do – along with special guests Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Tony Hawks and Linda Smith. Highlights include 'Play Your Chords Right', 'New Definitions', 'Naturists’ Song Book', 'Inadvisable Openings', 'Sound Charades', 'One Song to the Tune of Another', '84 Chicken Cross Road', 'Uxbridge English Dictionary', 'Swanee Kazoo' and the incredibly popular 'Mornington Crescent'. So get ready to laugh out loud as Humph and the gang indulge in more wonderful wordplay, accompanied by Colin Sell on the piano and the lovely Samantha, who likes to keep each team abreast (with the scores). This is the last I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue compilation volume to feature Humphrey Lyttelton as host. ‘Risky, rude, brilliantly written and superbly performed’ - The Judges, Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Indexes
Languages : en
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Indexes the Times and its supplements.
