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Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs : The Secret Life Of The English Language
by Manser, Martin H. Pickering, David
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 029785349X
- ISBN 13
- 9780297853497
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.* Binding and cover condition: Scarlet cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £9.99. No shelf or edge wear. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very little or no reading wear, no marks to text. No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: B/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: 268 pp. text. vi pp. Index, notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: Twocking Chavs is a guided tour of the English language, arranged in 'seven ages' (chapters), tracing the 'birth' of words (alphabets, word origins, etc.), their youthful playfulness and occasional misdemeanours (word games, misspellings, etc.) and various other stages of language 'life', culminating in death (last words, lost words, etc.) and reincarnation (words that have changed their meaning). Within each of these chapters clusters of loosely related material are presented in a range of different forms - lists, small passages of narrative text, amusing quotations and nuggets of amazing facts.* A FINE copy of the 1st./1st. without visible faults.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 478
- Title
- Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs : The Secret Life Of The English Language
- Author
- Manser, Martin H. Pickering, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 029785349X
- ISBN 13
- 9780297853497
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 271
- Date Published
- 2007-08-16
- Size
- 19.6 x 13.2 x 3.2 cm
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