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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->==Trivia==__NOTOC__<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Forsyth1780724047|title=The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words Dictionary of the English LanguageInteresting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J Conradi|rating=54|genre=TriviaPets|summary=This I struggle to resist a book just had to be called about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'The Horologicon': given that I'. Originally it meant ve never encountered a daily diary of devotion for dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably both, I was expecting a priest or monkmassive tome. Our author knows it But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rare word these days rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and gives it to his modern Book of Hours, which is 's certainly a guide to similarly obsoleterich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, charming or unusually whimsical words set out, not as others do, as a dictionarySky. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but in essays what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every waking hour one of the day, and the subject they're most likely to coverthem. I knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848314159</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Arthur PlotnikDon Behrend|title=Better Than GreatCopernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting Questions|rating=4.5
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|summary=Better Than Great is a bravura, ingeniously inventive, roaringly intelligent thesaurus of praise and acclaim - oh, mommaHello! Where has Would this paean-worthy, distressingly excellent book, which certainly goes the whole hog, been all my lifereview be okay if I simply said ''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. FIN''?! Because I did. And you will. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0285641336</amazonuk>1789016770
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel LevyLloyd_1423|title=Why?1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over|author=John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller
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|summary=Why does the Titanic float You may think me lazy, but there is an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in hitting upon a brick sink? And that water they’re sinking or floating book such as this – you know you will have very little bearing on its sales, and what's more you hardly even need describe it – just dip inhere and there for a few quotes, why and sit back and relax knowing your job is it wet? done. ''Only 1% of people who buy marmalade are under the age of 28. Treadmills were once the harshest form of punishment after the death penalty. Naked mole-rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.'' And what colour is itthe whole of page 52. There, ‘cos it ain’t clear? These questions job done – and many more are answered in the creators of this book which may not be a new concept but which is executed extremely wellcertainly have done their job to perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David AstleBrightside_101|title=Puzzled101 Things to Take the Stress Out of Christmas|author=Robin Snow
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|summary=Words For many years one of my guiding principles has been that the C word should not be mentioned until the beginning of December but, unfortunately, C seems to be coming earlier each year and there are wonderful enough when they’re just telling you things straight even shops where it never ceases to be imminent, which ramps upthe stress levels considerably. So, but who can resist them when they’re really being playful? Not David Astle, a book which promises 101 things to take the author stress out of this new title that blows C seemed like a good idea. What’s it about? Tips like putting the lid sprouts on it all with what he calls 'secrets and clues from to boil in November or joining a life in words'religion which avoids the celebration altogether? Well, not quite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685427</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph PiercyBrightside_Worry|title=The Story 101 Things to do instead of Englishworrying about the world|author=Felicity Brightside|rating=34
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|summary=I don't think that I'The Story ve ever been quite so worried about the state of the world as I have been of English'' sets out late - and I speak as someone who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and various other apocalyptic moments. It almost certainly comes down to be a potted history lack of confidence in the influences that have shaped our languagepeople who are supposedly in charge, whether it be from the Lindisfarne Gospels to LOLcatsa political point of view or of our stewardship of this planet we call home.comBut what can be done about it? We've tried voting, arguing and demonstrating. Starting with Now we're down to pulling up the pre-Roman Celts drawbridge and their Ogham alphabet, it goes crashing through fifteen hundred years of linguistic history at a terrific pace doing our best to end with an almost audible sigh of relief at the internet agethink about something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178834</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Daoust (editor)Lloyd 1342|title=Write.1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted|ratingauthor=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=The Guardian newspaper has for some years now been publishing articles and interviews on how to write. Successful authorsJohn Lloyd, agents and publishers have offered pearls of wisdom in the Guardian Masterclasses for genres as wide-ranging as travel writingJohn Mitchinson, picture books and screenplays. Now their wisdom and their insights have been collected together in this slim volume which will intrigue both the readers James Harkin and the writers among us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265328X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nigel Fountain|title=Cliches: Avoid Them Like the PlagueAnne Miller|rating=45
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|summary=Cliché is such an awful word I love the way the QI elves play games with us with all its connotations of the trite[[:Category:John Lloyd, the hackneyed John Mitchinson and the overusedJames Harkin|these books]]. ItThat's not to say it's a word game of pulling the wool over our eyes, for every entrant in this series has had the equivalent online version for the sources, so every page is replicated with the due links youneed to search for proof of their statements. No, the game is Six Degrees of Separation. And they'd hate to have associated with your writingre so good at it, they can do most things in three. So in just three standalone, but thematically linked, phrases, even if you produce nothing more public than a shopping list but can get from how to make the sound of an Orc army for the benefit ''Lord of the discerning reader Nigel Fountain has compiled a list in alphabetical order of these dreaded phrasesRings'' films to record-breaking nipple hair. I began readingFrom illicit wartime barbers in Italy to American founding father bedroom arrangements, confident that I couldn't be caught out is only three steps – and then blushed when I realised that I'd just pointed out the path carries on to someone reach that avoiding clichés wasn't rocket scienceerstwhile novice stand-up, Ronald Reagan, in two more. They agreed that it isnIt't brain surgery eithers only two jumps between Donald Trump and Charles Darwin, disconcertingly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843174863</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison MaloneyLloyd_1411|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 to two or three sentence quotes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753540975</amazonuk>}} {{newreview411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways|author=E Foley John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and B Coates|title=Homework for Grown UpsJames Harkin
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|summary=School days can sometimes seem like a very long time agoHandsome is as handsome does. You most likely spent 12 to 14 years of early life learning in a classroom, but how much can And you remember? Sure, you can count, know what else benefits from being curt and you know your alphabetsuccinct, but all those other lessons you had, how much can you really remember of thosealongside old housewives' saws like that one? If you want or need Trivia. I always thought the QI books such as this one to remember back to your school lessons be handsome things – perfectly presenting trivia, four (to help your own children with their homeworkon rare occasion, three) statements to win pub quizzesthe page, whatever the reason) then this book can helpin a very nice little cubical hardback. Covering ten subjects from English and Maths to ScienceNow they're being represented in paperback, Home Ec and History, it’s a crash course to refresh your knowledge – all those things but you kinda know deep down, but at the same time have forgotten at least a little bitwhat? They're still handsome things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540029</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman TschappelerLloyd_1339|title=The Question Book1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin
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|summary=I like words. Words are awesome. End A spermologer ''is a collector of. But I also like trivia''. I like knowing things Just that perhaps other people don’tsentence tells you a lot – we're once more in the realm of the curt, succinct approach to the world's information and helpfully passing on this knowledge to themoddities. So a book about It says more, however – beyond the weirdness of the word is the obvious necessity for the word-related to exist – without people that could be called collectors of trivia is just a win-winyou would not need the term. And rest assured, and this one is so good I think we’ll have to call it a win-win-winthere are currently few people that stand as better spermologers than the chief QI elves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848313071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ArdaghMetcalf_Skedaddle|title=Philip Ardagh's Book From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commonersthe Generation|author=Allan Metcalf
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|summary=A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To I have to go a roundabout way to introduce this book, so bear with me. It stems partly from dictionaries and the etymology of the language we use, but more so if anything from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generations. The Galaxy is just why Adams chose authors of those posited the number 42 as idea that all those archetypical generations – the answer to lifeBaby Boomers, the universe Millennials, and everything. In a charming trivia bookthose before, in between and since – have their own cyclical pattern, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into and the story history of humanity has been and will be formed by the book interplay of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) in regular order. I don't really hold much store by that, and I certainly didn't know we'd started one since the Millennials – who the author and another 250 to find occurrences heck decides such things, for one? ''Somebody must have put out an order'', as someone here says of 42 something else. But in the worlds of sportsame way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, crimeso do words – and those words are certainly a clue to what was important, science predominant and a wide range of other fieldscourse spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher WinnHalliday_Cathedrals|title=I Never Knew That About the River ThamesCathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday
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|summary=Here are What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically the remains principal church of the building anywhere that could be said to have sired two important British royal dynasties. Here is the place made a city – St Davids is a village of ill-repute2, where 000 people and wasn'Rule Britanniat always a city, but always had a cathedral, as did Chelmsford. It' was premiereds not the seat of a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and which also bizarrely saw hasn't had a bishop since 1690. It's not a death by cricket ball minster – that inspired 's something completely different, and if you can understand the most famous gardens sign in the world. Here too is delightful Beverley Minster describing the largest lion in difference, that I saw only the worldother month, you're a better man I, Gunga Din. To where am I referring? Well Luckily this book doesn't touch on minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, so it's only the answer vast majority of this book that is either saddled with the Thames valleydefinition problem. It's clearly not a real problem, and those it does have are by-passable, or for this very booksuccessfully defines a cathedral as somewhere of major importance, fine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareBramley_Shakespeare|title=Why Can't Elephants Jump?|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Well? Why can't elephants jump? And while you're pondering that, think about why James Bond wanted his martini shaken, not stirred. Why is frozen milk yellow? Does eating bogeys do you any harm? What'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, and so many more, then do yourself a favour and pick up the latest collection from the New Scientist's [http://www.last-word.com/ Last Word column]. Mick O'Hare was also kind enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Mick O'Hare|interviewed by Bookbag]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668398X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Cousineau|title=Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words|rating=3.5|genre=Trivia|summary=I formed a new, close friendship recently, and one of the first things I subtly dropped into things was the fact that I might use a different dictionary to other people. Probably there was a subconscious thought forming that it would be better to make it known, in case I trod on any toes, said anything that didn't go down quite as well as I had planned. But that's nothing compared to what Phil Cousineau has done here, for he has written his own dictionary, and got it published in a very nice, glossy, browsable form. Alright, it's nothing like a complete dictionary, but everything is here in his own personal style - 250 main words, definitions, derivations and examples of use. Oh, and some modern-ish artworks as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1573444006</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewShakespeare Trail|author=John Andrews|title=The Economist Book of IsmsZoe Bramley
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|summary=I'm assuming all readers of this bookIt has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, and this review, will know the meanings of man heralded as the words racism, atheism and Communism. But how about Orphism? Nestorianism? Vorticism? Or greatest writer in the exact difference between egoism, egotismEnglish language, and egocentrism? IEngland'll confess to ignorance on all of that second trio of words before reading this books national poet, but was fascinated to find out what they weredied. (Orphism is Shakespeare has made a religion originating profound mark on our culture and heritage, yet many aspects of his life remain in 6th or 7th century BC Greece based on the poems of Orpheusshadows, who returned from Hadesand many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. I'll leave you to find out Here, Zoe Bramley takes the definitions reader on a journey through hundreds of the other two yourself!) Similarly, I was aware places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a surprise to most. Filled with intriguing tidbits of all three of that final trilogyinformation about Shakespeare, but am not sure I even knew there '''was''' a differenceElizabethan England, let alone and the places that I'd have come close to being able to actually define them all as she talks about, this volume doesis no mere travel guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682983</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susie DentHalliday_London|title=How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie, a National CompanionLondon (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday
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|summary=Meeting What makes a grammersow in a netty is more common than you might think - I'd put my revits on city? Is it. Having a neb around these pages I can find many different ways of saying the abovematerials, such as well - or should the very London Stone itself, of mythological repute, that be boco ways. has moved around several times, and now forms part of a WH Smith's branch? But before this review comes out as complete cag-mag(This has nothing, I'd better say this book is just as you'd expect - an amenableof course, approachable but intelligent look at regional idiom and slangon Temple Bar, in A-Z dictionary form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211791</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Derrick Niederman|title=Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 which has also been known to 200|rating=4walk.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=This is a book that definitely does what ) Is it says on the tin. Our author has people – the butchers [[Jack the capacity to grab each number between one Ripper: CSI: Whitechapel by John Bennett and two hundredPaul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]], the bakers (or whoever set fire to the entire city from Pudding Lane) and wring the candlestick makers? Is it for all its worth - all the special status it might have in our culture (more easy with seven thaninfrastructure, sayfrom the Underground, 187)whose one-time boss got a medal from Stalin for his success, all to the special properties London Bridge itself, that in its own wanderlust means it might possess (perfect's highly unlikely the Thames will freeze again? However you define a city, triangular, prime)London certainly has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful, and as many other things mathematicians and so on would find of interestthe trivial yet fascinating. Luckily there is enough here to make the book well worth a browse And, luckily for us who would not deem themselves number buffs, so has this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071563710X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=AQA 63336Holland_Railways|title=More Brilliant Answers|rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=If you've got a question you can text those nice people at AQA 63336 Railways (Amazing and they'll do their best to provide you with a prompt and accurate answer. Over the last five years they've answered some twenty million questions and each autumn they publish a book with the best and most interesting of the year's answers. There's some fun to be had in this year's book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683262</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewExtraordinary Facts)|author=Tad Tuleja|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words and PhrasesJulian 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 exit end of a one-way street but facing the illegal way up it. Not all signs, of course, are quite as unnecessary, or indeed as blatantly visible, which is where this pictorial guide to countless coded messages, signifiers and other similar factoids comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994487</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt Allen |title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars of latter had officiated before the 70s and 80s |rating=4War.5|genre=Sport|summary=This looks like some peopleWhat's the worst idea of that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a bookLondon goods train with no further destination documents? Well, ever. Trivia, nostalgia, football, and lists - does it if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get more masculine? There's not a female in sight, either, buried as we get 101 portraits of footballers from times past, and most importantly, a summary of their career since hanging an unknown corpse before the invoice turns up the boots to prove you were wanted in the professional gameBelgium.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh|title=Philip ArdaghAfter so many miles and so much drama, it's Book of Howlers, Blunders no surprise odd facts and Random Mistakery|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Therefun trivia derive from our country's nought so queer as folktrains. From the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name This book is designed to be an ideal source of quick articles 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 fun mini-essays for use 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 idiotssmallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marlene Wagman-Geller Donald_Words|title=Once Again to Zelda: Fifty Great Dedications and Their StoriesWords of a Feather|author=Graeme 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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