The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities
Author(s): Paul Anthony Jones
This is the perfect language gift book: a surprising or obscure word for every day of the year. Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of wonderful and strange words: dip into this beautifully designed book to be delighted and intrigued throughout the year. Illuminating some aspect of that day, or simply informing and entertaining, each word reveals a story:
1 January: quaaltagh (n.) the first person you meet on New Year's Day
2 January: fedifragous (adj.) promise-breaking, oath-violating
In The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities you might explore etymological origins, learn about linguistic trivia, or wonder at the web of connections within the English language. Written with humour and a light touch that belies the depth of research it contains, this is both a fascinating compendium of etymology and a delightfully entertaining miscellany.
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Paul Anthony Jones is something of a linguistic phenomenon. He runs the popular @HaggardHawks twitter feed, blog and YouTube channel, revealing daily word facts to 34.6k engaged followers. This led to Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities (E&T, 2015) and The Accidental Dictionary (E&T, 2016). He is the author of several other books on trivia and language: The British Isles: A Trivia Gazetteer (Summersdale, 2012), Haggard Hawks & Paltry Poltroons (Constable, 2013) and Jedburgh Justice & Kentish Fire (Constable, 2014). He appears regularly in the Telegraph online, BBC Radio 4's World at One, Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post and Mental Floss, and has contributed to the Guardian, Independent and Woman's Weekly, and Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries online. A piano teacher and musician, he lives in South Tyneside.
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- : Elliott & Thompson, Limited
- : Elliott & Thompson, Limited
- : 01 November 2017
- : 01 August 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Paul Anthony Jones
- : Hardback