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Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat Alex Games

Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat von Alex Games

Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat Alex Games

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Zusammenfassung

Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat takes a humorous tour through the fascinating, sometimes tragic, and often surprising history of the English language and its etymology.

Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat Zusammenfassung

Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat: The Complete Balderdash & Piffle Collection of English Words, and Their Curious Origins Alex Games

Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat takes a humorous tour through the fascinating, sometimes tragic, and often surprising history of the English language and its etymology.

Author, humorist and word-sleuth Alex Games uncovers the trends, innovations and scandals that have shaped the meanings of our most popular words and expressions, from Chaucer to Internet jargon and Ancient Greek to American slang. Who was the original Jack the Lad, Gordon Bennett or Bloody Mary? Where do dodgy geezers and hooligans come from? What are skeldering, dithering and sabre-rattling?

This amusing but rigorously researched account of English words and their origins combines the findings of the major BBC TV series and the nationwide Wordhunt, and is an entertaining treasure trove for English-language lovers everywhere.

Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat Bewertungen

It was fun, instructive and will appeal to the scholarly in all of us. I see no earthly reason why it should not, as it used to say on theatre posters, run and run -- Peter Paterson * Daily Mail *
Fascinating * The Times *
It's the kind of show that sticks a boot up the posterior of those who claim the BBC is only interested in dumbing down pap these days -- Dominik Diamond * Daily Star *

Über Alex Games

Alex Games wrote the original Balderdash & Piffle which became an instant bestseller on publication in January 2006. He has written for most of the slightly posher newspapers, and in a brief stint as a gadget columnist he was responsible for reviewing some of the most inexpensive items ever to appear in the Financial Times. As well as writing comedy for BBC Radio 1 and 4, Alex has written biographies of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and Alan Bennett.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR001516564
9781846076107
1846076102
Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat: The Complete Balderdash & Piffle Collection of English Words, and Their Curious Origins Alex Games
Alex Games
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Ebury Publishing
20081106
544
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