Joe Moorwood The Yorkshire Meaning of Liff (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Yorkshire Meaning of LiffCondition: NewEAN: 9780957639980ISBN: 9780957639980Publisher: Great Northern Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/18/2013Item Height: 178mmItem Length: 116mmAuthor: Joe MoorwoodContributor: John Lloyd (Foreword by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0957639988Description: 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...Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Humour & Joke BooksRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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