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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->==Trivia==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel Levy1780724047|title=Why?|rating=5|genre=Trivia|summary=Why does the Titanic float but a brick sink? And that water they’re sinking or floating in, why is it wet? And what colour is it, ‘cos it ain’t clear? These questions A Dictionary of Interesting and many more are answered in this book which may not be a new concept but which is executed extremely well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewImportant Dogs|author=David Astle|title=PuzzledPeter J Conradi
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|genre=TriviaPets|summary=Words are wonderful enough when they’re just telling you things straight upI struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who can resist them when they’re really being playful? Not David Astlewasn't interesting or important - and probably both, the author I was expecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium of this new title that blows the lid on world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it all 's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what he calls comes over is Conradi'secrets s love for each and clues from a life every one of them. I knew that I was in words'safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph PiercyDon Behrend|title=The Story of English|rating=3|genre=Trivia|summary=''The Story of English'' sets out to be a potted history of the influences that have shaped our language, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to LOLcatsCopernicus! What Have You Done?: ..com. Starting with the pre-Roman Celts and their Ogham alphabet, it goes crashing through fifteen hundred years of linguistic history at a terrific pace to end with an almost audible sigh of relief at the internet age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178834</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Daoust (editor)|title=Write.Other Interesting Questions
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|summary=Cliché is such an awful word with all its connotations of the trite, the hackneyed and the overused. It's a word you'd hate to have associated with your writing, even Hello! Would this review be okay if you produce nothing more public than a shopping list but for the benefit of the discerning reader Nigel Fountain has compiled a list in alphabetical order of these dreaded phrases. I began reading, confident that I couldnsimply said ''t be caught out and then blushed when I realised that ILOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. FIN'd just pointed out to someone that avoiding clichés wasn't rocket science?! Because I did. They agreed that it isn't brain surgery eitherAnd you will.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1843174863</amazonuk>1789016770
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison MaloneyLloyd_1423|title=Bright Young Things|rating=4|genre=History|summary=According to the summary I read of ''Bright Young Things'' before choosing the book to read, it 'takes a sweeping look at the changing world of the Jazz Age'. I was expecting it to be something of a narrative account of the Roaring Twenties – in actual fact, it's set out as a collection of trivia about the decade. Similarly1, the 'first person accounts' mentioned on the inside front cover are limited 423 QI Facts to two or three sentence quotes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753540975</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBowl You Over|author=E Foley John Lloyd, James Harkin and B Coates|title=Homework for Grown UpsAnne Miller|rating=4.5
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|summary=School days can sometimes seem like a very long time ago. You most likely spent 12 to 14 years of early life learning in a classroommay think me lazy, but how much can you remember? Sure, you can count, and you know your alphabet, but all those other lessons you had, how much can you really remember of those? If you want or need to remember back to your school lessons (to help your own children with their homework, to win pub quizzes, whatever the reason) then this there is an inherent satisfaction for book can help. Covering ten subjects from English and Maths to Science, Home Ec and History, it’s reviewers in hitting upon a crash course to refresh your knowledge book such as this – all those things you kinda know deep down, but at the same time you will have forgotten at least a very little bit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540029</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Question Book|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best booksbearing on its sales, albums and parties we have been to in the previous twelve months. But can what's more you, with some effort, locate the one you made hardly even need describe it – just dip in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups here and downs in there for a given periodfew quotes, and then decided to expand it by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual and financial aspects sit back and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all relax knowing your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them from job is done. ''Only 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one % of people who buy marmalade are under the age of 28. Treadmills were once the harshest form of punishment after the books that list ''100 things to do before you diedeath penalty. Naked mole-rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.'' or ''500 books to read in your life'' (and ticked off And the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend a whole evening and half of a night filling in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on the Internet? Have you ever doodled somethingpage 52. There, decided that it beautifully expresses job done – and the deepest essence creators of your personality and then proceeded this book certainly have done their job to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>perfection.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Francesca SimonBrightside_101|title=Horrid Henry's A - Z 101 Things to Take the Stress Out of Everything HorridChristmas|author=Robin Snow
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|summary=I like words. Words are awesome. End For many years one of. But I also like trivia. I like knowing things my guiding principles has been that perhaps other people don’tthe C word should not be mentioned until the beginning of December but, unfortunately, C seems to be coming earlier each year and helpfully passing on this knowledge there are even shops where it never ceases to thembe imminent, which ramps up the stress levels considerably. So , a book about word-related trivia is just which promises 101 things to take the stress out of C seemed like a win-win, and this one is so good I think we’ll have idea. What’s it about? Tips like putting the sprouts on to call it boil in November or joining a win-win-winreligion which avoids the celebration altogether? Well, not quite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ArdaghBrightside_Worry|title=Philip Ardagh's Book 101 Things to do instead of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commoners|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you deem a good children's historical trivia book to be one that tells you, the adult, something they didn't know worrying about historical trivia, then this is a good example. I didn't know George V broke his pelvis when his horse fell on him, startled by some post-WWI huzzahs. I didn't know Charles VI of France nearly got torched in some drunken bacchanal. The length of time Charlemagne sat on a throne (over 400 whole years (even if he wasn't wholly whole all that time)) was news to me, as was the raffle that was held (more or less) for being the unknown soldier. Therefore this is a good book for children and the adults willing to instill some historical trivia into them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471732</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewworld|author=Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby|title=It Could Have Been Yours: The enlightened person's guide to the year's most desirable thingsFelicity Brightside
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|summary=In a I don't think that I've ever been quite so worried about the state of the world as I have been of diamondlate -encrusted skulls, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten I speak as someone who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and various other apocalyptic moments. It almost certainly comes down to a pennylack of confidence in the people who are supposedly in charge, whether it be from a political point of blingy shit (view or should that of our stewardship of this planet we call home. But what can be shitty blingdone about it?) itWe's a relief to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhile. The records for costliest photove tried voting, artwork, musical instrument arguing and manuscript have all been broken in the twenty four months leading demonstrating. Now we're down to pulling up to this book's release. Our collators have scoured the press for those drawbridge and other, similarly noteworthy auctions, and found what other people paid for what you didn't know you would have wanted given the moneydoing our best to think about something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie PainLloyd 1342|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=The history of science is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ...It's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentation, a coachman's leg that becomes a museum piece and gas-powered radios. ''Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers'' regales us with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discovery. Part popular science book, part trivia, each article is a treat to read, either as a fun-sized nugget1, or when reading from cover to cover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted|author=Peter Gill|title=42 - Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to LifeJohn Lloyd, John Mitchinson, the Universe James Harkin and EverythingAnne Miller
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|summary=A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is just why Adams chose I love the number 42 as way the answer to lifeQI elves play games with us with [[:Category:John Lloyd, the universe John Mitchinson and everythingJames Harkin|these books]]. In That's not to say it's a charming trivia bookgame of pulling the wool over our eyes, for every entrant in this series has had the equivalent online version for the sources, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so every page is replicated with the due links you need to look into search for proof of their statements. No, the story game is Six Degrees of Separation. And they're so good at it, they can do most things in three. So in just three standalone, but thematically linked, phrases, you can get from how to make the book and sound of an Orc army for ''Lord of the author and another 250 Rings'' films to find occurrences of 42 record-breaking nipple hair. From illicit wartime barbers in Italy to American founding father bedroom arrangements, is only three steps – and the worlds of sportpath carries on to reach that erstwhile novice stand-up, crimeRonald Reagan, science in two more. It's only two jumps between Donald Trump and a wide range of other fieldsCharles Darwin, disconcertingly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher WinnLloyd_1411|title=I Never Knew That About the River Thames1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
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|summary=Here are the remains of the building Handsome is as handsome does. And you know what else benefits from being curt and succinct, alongside old housewives' saws like that could be said to have sired two important British royal dynastiesone? Trivia. Here is I always thought the place of ill-reputeQI books such as this one to be handsome things – perfectly presenting trivia, where 'Rule Britannia' was premieredfour (on rare occasion, and which also bizarrely saw a death by cricket ball that inspired three) statements to the most famous gardens page, in the worlda very nice little cubical hardback. Here too is the largest lion Now they're being represented in the world. To where am I referringpaperback, but you know what? Well the answer is either the Thames valley, or this very bookThey're still handsome things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareLloyd_1339|title=Why Can't Elephants Jump?1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
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|genre=Popular ScienceTrivia|summary=Well? Why canA spermologer 't elephants jump? And while 'is a collector of trivia''. Just that sentence tells youa lot – we're pondering thatonce more in the realm of the curt, think about why James Bond wanted his martini shaken, not stirred. Why is frozen milk yellow? Does eating bogeys do you any harm? Whatsuccinct approach to the world's the hole for in a ballpoint pen? How long a line could you draw with a single pencil? For answers to all these questions, information and so many oddities. It says more, then do yourself a favour and pick up however – beyond the weirdness of the word is the latest collection from obvious necessity for the New Scientist's [http://www.last-word.com/ Last Word column]. Mick O'Hare was also kind enough to exist – without people that could be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mick O'Hare|interviewed by Bookbag]]called collectors of trivia you would not need the term. And rest assured, there are currently few people that stand as better spermologers than the chief QI elves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668398X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil CousineauMetcalf_Skedaddle|title=WordcatcherFrom Skedaddle to Selfie: An Odyssey into Words of the World of Weird and Wonderful WordsGeneration|author=Allan Metcalf
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|summary=I formed have to go a new, close friendship recentlyroundabout way to introduce this book, so bear with me. It stems partly from dictionaries and one the etymology of the first things I subtly dropped into things was the fact that I might language we use , but more so if anything from a different dictionary to other peoplecouple of books, and their ideas of generations. Probably there was a subconscious thought forming The authors of those posited the idea that it would all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, in between and since – have their own cyclical pattern, and the history of humanity has been and will be better to make it knownformed by the interplay of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) in case regular order. I trod on any toesdon't really hold much store by that, said anything that and I certainly didn't go down quite as well as I had planned. But thatknow we's nothing compared to what Phil Cousineau has done hered started one since the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for he has written his own dictionary, and got it published in a very nice, glossy, browsable form. one? Alright, it's nothing like a complete dictionary'Somebody must have put out an order'', but everything is as someone here says of something else. But in his own personal style - 250 main the same way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those wordsare certainly a clue to what was important, definitions, derivations predominant and examples of use. Oh, and some modern-ish artworks as wellcourse spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1573444006</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John AndrewsHalliday_Cathedrals|title=The Economist Book of IsmsCathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday|rating=4.5
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|summary=IWhat makes a cathedral? It'm assuming all readers s not automatically the principal church of anywhere that is made a city – St Davids is a village of this book2, 000 people and this reviewwasn't always a city, but always had a cathedral, will know as did Chelmsford. It's not the meanings seat of a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the words racismperson, atheism and Communismhasn't had a bishop since 1690. But how about Orphism? Nestorianism? Vorticism? Or It's not a minster – that's something completely different, and if you can understand the sign in the delightful Beverley Minster describing the exact difference between egoism, egotismthat I saw only the other month, and egocentrism? you're a better man I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book doesn'll confess to ignorance t touch on all of that second trio minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, so it's only the vast majority of words before reading this book, but was fascinated to find out what they were. (Orphism that is a religion originating in 6th or 7th century BC Greece based on saddled with the poems of Orpheus, who returned from Hadesdefinition problem. IIt'll leave you to find out the definitions of the other two yourself!) Similarly, I was aware of all three of that final trilogy, but am s clearly not sure I even knew there '''was''' a differencereal problem, let alone that I'd and those it does have come close to being able to actually define them all are by-passable, for this successfully defines a cathedral as this volume doessomewhere of major importance, fine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682983</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susie DentBramley_Shakespeare|title=How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie, a National CompanionThe Shakespeare Trail|author=Zoe Bramley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meeting a grammersow It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in a netty is more common than you might think - Ithe English language, and England'd put my revits on its national poet, died. Having Shakespeare has made a neb around these pages I can find profound mark on our culture and heritage, yet many different ways aspects of saying his life remain in the aboveshadows, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Here, Zoe Bramley takes the reader on a journey through hundreds of places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as well - or should that be boco waysa surprise to most. But before this review comes out as complete cag-magFilled with intriguing tidbits of information about Shakespeare, I'd better say this book is just as you'd expect - an amenableElizabethan England, approachable but intelligent look at regional idiom and slangthe places that she talks about, in A-Z dictionary formthis is no mere travel guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211791</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derrick NiedermanHalliday_London|title=Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200London (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday
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|summary=If you've got What makes a question you can text those nice people at AQA 63336 city? Is it the materials, such as the very London Stone itself, of mythological repute, that has moved around several times, and theynow forms part of a WH Smith'll do their best s branch? (This has nothing, of course, on Temple Bar, which has also been known to provide you with a prompt and accurate answerwalk. ) Over Is it the last five years they've answered some twenty million questions people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: Whitechapel by John Bennett and each autumn they publish a book with Paul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]], the bakers (or whoever set fire to the best entire city from Pudding Lane) and most interesting of the yearcandlestick makers? Is it the infrastructure, from the Underground, whose one-time boss got a medal from Stalin for his success, to the London Bridge itself, that in its own wanderlust means it's answershighly unlikely the Thames will freeze again? However you define a city, London certainly has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful, and the trivial yet fascinating. There's some fun to be had in And, luckily for us, so has this year's book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683262</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tad TulejaHolland_Railways|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words Railways (Amazing and PhrasesExtraordinary Facts)|author=Julian Holland
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|summary=Signs are everywhere. I wasn't really one How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until York (George VI)? They reopened the day I was driven past a pair of speed regulation signsRomney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, positioned at whose launch the latter had officiated before the War. What's the exit end of worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a one-way street but facing London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the illegal way invoice turns up to prove you were wanted in Belgium. After so many miles and so much drama, it's no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our country's trains. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessary, or indeed as blatantly visible, which This book is where this pictorial guide designed to countless coded messages, signifiers be an ideal source of quick articles and other similar factoids comes fun mini-essays for use inthe smallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994487</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Allen Donald_Words|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of the 70s and 80s |rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=This looks like some people's worst idea of a book, ever. Trivia, nostalgia, football, and lists - does it get more masculine? There's not a female in sight, either, as we get 101 portraits Words of footballers from times past, and most importantly, a summary of their career since hanging up the boots in the professional game.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFeather|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random Mistakery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's nought so queer as folk. From the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name and date of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTV, to the people who ordered someone to paint clothes on all the people in the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided the original had been better, and the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely to make a name for themselves. We have long been a race of idiots.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marlene Wagman-Geller |title=Once Again to Zelda: Fifty Great Dedications and Their StoriesGraeme Donald
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|summary=Once you've done all Words of a Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and the hard work (written a bookcertainly delivers. It pairs seemingly unrelated words, found a publisherdigs up their etymological roots and reveals their common ancestry. The English language, of course, decided on provides rich pickings indeed for a design for book of this type and it is fascinating to see the cover hidden meaning behind common and all those things)not-so-common words. Some connections are fairly obvious once you read them. For example, one of the remaining difficulties must be deciding who you should dedicate link between ''grotto'' and ''grotesque'' is easy to grasp: the tome toword ''grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in Ancient Roman ''grottoes''. Assuming Other connections are just extraordinary, like the so-crazy-you-couldn't-make-it-up link between ''furnace''s no Oscar speech, and you can't thank 'fornicate''. These two words date back to Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the world and his dogcity's abandoned baking domes. And some connections are more than a little tenuous, you have to narrow it down somewhat and select that special person whose name wins pride seemingly just a collection of place on words banded together, as is the first page. Do you then go case with something cryptic the ''insult'' and intriguing, or apparently banal and blatantly obvious? I'm sure most readers don't even look at salmon'' pairing. One of my personal favourites: the dedications in most books, but if you did, would you understand the significance of them? Would something saying Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''To my wifeslave'' make you look twice, was used to summon or would that seem like dismiss a reasonably common way slave; this word became corrupted to dedicate a book? In ''Once Again, To Zeldaciao'' you can discover , a word the stories you don't know behind the stories you may more well, as the author delves into the detail behind -heeled among us use instead of ''Fifty Great Dedicationsgoodbye''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330511351</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareBinney_English|title=How To Make A TornadoThe English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Ruth Binney
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|summary=Ah, I live in the countryside and spend as much time as the English language. That sine qua nonweather will allow exploring it, so the prima facie lingua franca of the world. Prima inter pares when it comes chance to taking influence and words from other tongues, and responding in kind, read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to the chagrin of the Frenchbe missed. We all use it, 've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and in this day we know that she writes well and age we can update an internet dictionary overnight to absorb all the neologismsinterestingly, like "iPhone"; we can put the entire output of an author into a computer and it will count every word use up so we can find a fingerprint of a writer's stylebut just one thing was worrying me about this book. It's a never-ending, fluid, changing entity, for better hardback and beautifully presented but its the size of book that you slip into a pocket or worsehandbag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680069</amazonuk> Would it be rather superficial?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tadg FarringtonLloyd_1234|title=The Average Life of the Average Person1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
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|summary=Is ''No US President has ever died in May.'' ''There are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there anything more suited to a trivia book, yet so much thought over, are men named John.'' ''Dogs investigate bad smells with their right nostril and serious, than the birthday present? good smells with their left.'' It might be something completely throw-away, but mean a lot ''Apollo 11's fuel consumption was seven inches to the receivergallon. '' It might have cost the giver an awful amount of money''The first occupational disease ever recorded in medical literature was 'chimney sweep's scrotum'.'' ''The song 'Yes, and be disregarded We Have No Bananas' was written by the person expected to accept itLeon Trotsky's nephew. '' And if you think the givings and takings of ''In the rich and famous are sheer trivia18th Century, just think about King George I declared all pigeon droppings to be the number property of sociologists and historians who would jump at the chance Crown''. I hardly think I need to explore, say, Hitler's given giftsany more. Review over. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847246168</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=AQA 63336Berenson_How|title=Brilliant AnswersHow to Speak Emoji|author=Fred Benenson
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|summary=Do you need an answer to a question? Have you got your mobile handy? Right – text that question to 63336, the Home of Any Question AnsweredEmojis are fun, and for £1 you'll have the answer within minutes. It might seem like magic but itthere's actually the result of a lot of people being on hand so much more to research your problem and give you the solution. Over them than the years 1.7 million people have asked over fifteen million questions and as a special treat at the end smileys of each year AQA lets us have days gone by ;) They can be a look at some of the most interesting questions language unto themselves, though, and answers that theyI've seen in the course found that some members of the year, ahem, older generation can find themselves a little troubled by them. This book, then, sounds perfect for anyone who needs a little help with this 'language'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682169</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey TurnerLloyd_3rd|title=QI: The Third Book of Big ExcusesGeneral Ignorance|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray|rating=34.5
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|summary=AhWell done, we've all made excuses at one time or anotherHartlepool. We've all done things we shouldnYou didn't have put on trial and kill a shipwrecked monkey thinking it a Napoleonic spy – any more than the several other places thusly accused ever did. Well done, then when caught out given Italy, for making the ciabatta such a reason for global phenomenon it seems like a traditional foodstuff, even if itwas invented in 1982. Perhaps we've even given excuses as stylish as Zambian tennis And well done to that famous ice hockey player Lighton Ndefwayl, Charles Darwin – who said of his opponent: "[He] is was probably playing it, seeing as it was a stupid man and British invention, long before the Canadians ever realised they might be good at it. Yes, for a hopeless player. He has book that spends a huge nose lot of its time saying 'this didn’t happen,' 'hoojamaflip didn't do this,' and is cross-eyed. Girls hate him. He beat me because my jockstrap 'that was too tight and because when he serves he fartsnever thus', and it's one that made me lose my concentration, for which I am famous throughout Zambia." Tracey Tuner has collated some of the best excuses ever given into a handy collection's incredibly easy to be most positive about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970553</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew ColeTaggart_New|title=Will Work New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for Nutsthe Modern World|author=Caroline Taggart
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|summary=Oh lookI never declare myself off to have a 'kip', as I recall reading that it originally meant the same amount of sleeping – and activity – as happens in a trivia bookwhorehouse. The word 'cleave' can mean either to split apart or to connect together, and I'm sure there's another word that has completely changed its meaning from one end of things to another although I doncan't think even I realised quite how many were published in the run up remember which. Certainly, ''literally'' has tried its best to every Christmas, but there are make a lotfull switch through rampant misuse. There Such is probably a name for the phenomenon. There is a name for that bit between your nose nature of our language – fluid both in spelling until moderately recently, and your lips – below your nasal septum comes the philtrumdefinitely in meaning. There's This attempt at capturing a correct scientific name for corner of the trivia/words/novelty market is interested in such tales from the etymological world – the tummy-grumbling noises way we make when things leave have adapted old words for our stomach for lower downown, modern and perhaps very different usages. HeckCertainly, there's even having browsed it over a scientific name for those circular grooves on top of week, I can declare it a Frisbeepretty strong attempt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561456X</amazonuk>
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