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

Manser, Martin H./ Pickering, David (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0753824175 / ISBN 13: 9780753824177

Editore: Phoenix, 2008

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268 pages. 7.75x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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• Titolo: The Secret Life of the English Language: Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs
• Editore: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0753824175
• ISBN 13: 9780753824177
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Brand New

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Riassunto

A more-ishly browsable collection of words and phrases, linguistic quirks, lexical oddities and syntactic surprises.

Informazioni sugli autori

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.

David Pickering is an experienced reference book compiler, freelance since 1992. He has contributed (often as sole author or chief editor) to around 200 books in the fields of general reference, English language, the arts, history and popular interest. He has also broadcast many times on a variety of subjects on radio and television. He lives in Buckingham with his wife and two sons.