The Yorkshire Meaning of Liff
€ 7,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780957639980 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Joe Moorwood |
| Editora | Great Northern Books Ltd |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 128 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,164 |
| Data de Publicação | 18/10/2013 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 7,45 |
| Imposto | € 0,45 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 7,90 |
| Disponibilidade | +20 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
This is the Yorkshire edition of the humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, created by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. If you opened this book expecting to find a variety of quaint thee and thy-based colloquialisms with the odd "ee-by-gum" and "tha'll be reet" thrown in for good measure, you may be a little disappointed...However, if you picked up this book because you're curious about things for which no words exist, and have a mild interest in random Yorkshire villages with quirky names - then you're in luck! The Yorkshire Meaning of Liff twins some of the obscurely wonderful, often unheard of and wastefully under-used place names of this glorious county, with the numerous experiences, feelings, situations and objects which we all know but, for some reason, have no words attributed to them. In no time at all you could be waxing lyrical about your most recent denaby main; empathising with friends who have also suffered a grimston, or expressing a whiston acquired during a state of galphay...