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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]] __NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Dr Gareth Moore|title=Clever Commuter: Puzzles, Tests and Problems to Solve on Your Journey|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=The week before I reviewed this book I saw a newspaper article that said that so<!--called brainRemove -training apps are a waste of time, that they merely replace what we should be doing anyway to keep our grey cells active (multi-tasking, observing, REAL LIFE etc). This is the puzzle book version of a brain training app, and so with all those electronic titles on the market it already had opposition, even before that news came in. But let's face it – who on earth would risk the science being wrong on this occasion? Surely this kind of book should be an inherently essential purchase?>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433953</amazonuk!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->}}{{newreviewFrontpage|title=There Are Tittles in This Title: The Weird World of Words|author=Mitchell Symons|rating=3.5|genre=Trivia|summary=I love spending time with Mitchell Symons books. If you don't know him, he's written this book, that book, and a book actually called ''This Book'' and a book actually called ''That Book''. He knows his trivia, he gets a lot of info on the page, and can really come across at the best of times as a convivial host. So pair him, as has happened here, with the weird and wonderful world of words and only great things could be expected. Unfortunately, then, only just above average things were expected.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782432574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1780724047|title=An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book Dictionary of Collective Nouns|author=Chloe Rhodes|rating=5|genre=Trivia|summary=We have all heard of a ''Pride of Lions'', a ''Herd of Cattle'' Interesting and a ''Flock of Birds'', but what about the less common, long forgotten collective nouns, like: a ''Bloat of Hippopotami'', a ''Mutation of Thrushes'', a ''Herd of Harlots'' or a ''Superfluity of Nuns''? If you are interested in the English language and the origin of words, then you will really enjoy browsing this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Who Invented The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)|author=Paul Simpson and Uli Hesse|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=In 1982, second division Charlton Athletic staged an unlikely transfer coup by signing former European Footballer of the Year Allan Simonsen. If the thought of the Danish superstar forsaking the glamour of Barcelona for south east London seemed unlikely then consider that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during a World Cup qualifier.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle EnglandImportant Dogs|author=Nigel CawthornePeter J Conradi

|genre=HumourPets|summary=It I struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was ever thus… cyclists go too fast, without using so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a hooter dog who wasn't interesting or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looksimportant - and probably both, I was expecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and no public conveniences; people pretend to have qualifications and degrees they havenImportant Dogs'' is actually 't rightfully earned; buses are too busy with shopping women who should be indoors already, cooking for their working menfolk… It's a very clever idea to show exactly what is behind rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' tag, and as it's certainly a book to be shelved alongside those rich treasure trove. We begin with the wackier letters sent to the ''Daily TelegraphPeter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, these selections from the Royal townbut what comes over is Conradi's press itself make a great eye-opener to the complaints love for each and complainants every one of Kentthem. I knew that I was in safe hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096918</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Don Behrend|title=Dedicated toCopernicus! What Have You Done?: ...: The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories and Lost Loves found in Second-hand Books|author=W B GooderhamOther Interesting Questions

|summary=This book just had to Hello! Would this review be called okay if I simply said ''The HorologiconI LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. FIN''?! Because I did. Originally it meant a daily diary of devotion for a priest or monk. Our author knows it is a rare word these days and gives it to his modern Book of Hours, which is a guide to similarly obsolete, charming or unusually whimsical words set out, not as others do, as a dictionary, but in essays for every waking hour of the day, and the subject they're most likely to coverAnd you will.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848314159</amazonuk>1789016770

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arthur PlotnikLloyd_1423|title=Better Than Great1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over|author=John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller

|summary=Better Than Great You may think me lazy, but there is an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in hitting upon a bravurabook such as this – you know you will have very little bearing on its sales, ingeniously inventiveand what's more you hardly even need describe it – just dip in here and there for a few quotes, roaringly intelligent thesaurus and sit back and relax knowing your job is done. ''Only 1% of people who buy marmalade are under the age of 28. Treadmills were once the harshest form of praise and acclaim punishment after the death penalty. Naked mole- ohrats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.'' And the whole of page 52. There, momma! Where has job done – and the creators of this paean-worthy, distressingly excellent book, which certainly goes the whole hog, been all my life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285641336</amazonuk>have done their job to perfection.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel LevyBrightside_101|title=Why?101 Things to Take the Stress Out of Christmas|author=Robin Snow|rating=54

|summary=Why does For many years one of my guiding principles has been that the C word should not be mentioned until the Titanic float beginning of December but a brick sink? And that water they’re sinking or floating in, why is it wet? And what colour is unfortunately, C seems to be coming earlier each year and there are even shops where itnever ceases to be imminent, which ramps up the stress levels considerably. So, ‘cos a book which promises 101 things to take the stress out of C seemed like a good idea. What’s it ain’t clearabout? These questions and many more are answered Tips like putting the sprouts on to boil in this book November or joining a religion which may avoids the celebration altogether? Well, not be a new concept but which is executed extremely wellquite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David AstleBrightside_Worry|title=Puzzled101 Things to do instead of worrying about the world|author=Felicity Brightside

|summary=Words are wonderful enough when they’re just telling you things straight up, but I don't think that I've ever been quite so worried about the state of the world as I have been of late - and I speak as someone who can resist them when they’re really being playful? Not David Astle, lived through the author Cuban Missile Crisis and various other apocalyptic moments. It almost certainly comes down to a lack of this new title that blows confidence in the lid on people who are supposedly in charge, whether it all with be from a political point of view or of our stewardship of this planet we call home. But what he calls can be done about it? We'secrets ve tried voting, arguing and clues from a life in wordsdemonstrating. Now we're down to pulling up the drawbridge and doing our best to think about something else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685427</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph PiercyLloyd 1342|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 language1, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to LOLcats.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>}} {{newreview342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted|author=Phil Daoust (editor)|title=Write.|rating=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 James Harkin and their insights have been collected together in this slim volume which will intrigue both the readers and the writers among us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265328X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nigel Fountain|title=Cliches: Avoid Them Like the PlagueAnne Miller|rating=45

|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 you'd hate to have associated with your writinggame of pulling the wool over our eyes, even if you produce nothing more public than a shopping list but for every entrant in this series has had the equivalent online version for the benefit of sources, so every page is replicated with the discerning reader Nigel Fountain has compiled a list in alphabetical order due links you need to search for proof of these dreaded phrasestheir statements. I began readingNo, confident that I couldn't be caught out and then blushed when I realised that I'd just pointed out to someone that avoiding clichés wasn't rocket sciencethe game is Six Degrees of Separation. They agreed that And they're so good at it isn't brain surgery either, they can do most things in three.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843174863</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alison Maloney|title=Bright Young Things|rating=4|genre=History|summary=According So in just three standalone, but thematically linked, phrases, you can get from how to make the summary I read sound of an Orc army for ''Bright Young ThingsLord of the Rings'' before choosing the book films to record-breaking nipple hair. From illicit wartime barbers in Italy to readAmerican founding father bedroom arrangements, it 'takes a sweeping look at is only three steps – and the changing world of the Jazz Age'. I was expecting it path carries on to be something of a narrative account of the Roaring Twenties – reach that erstwhile novice stand-up, Ronald Reagan, in actual fact, ittwo more. It's set out as a collection of trivia about the decade. Similarlyonly two jumps between Donald Trump and Charles Darwin, the 'first person accounts' mentioned on the inside front cover are limited to two or three sentence quotesdisconcertingly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753540975</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=E Foley and B CoatesLloyd_1411|title=Homework for Grown Ups1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin

|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>

 {{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

|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>

 {{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

|summary=In I have to go a world roundabout way to introduce this book, so bear with me. It stems partly from dictionaries and the etymology of diamond-encrusted skullsthe language we use, gold-leafed iPhones and luxury yachts ten but more so if anything from a pennydifferent couple of books, and their ideas of blingy shit (or should that be shitty bling?) it's a relief to know people are still spending money on unique one-offs that are more worthwhilegenerations. The records for costliest photoauthors of those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, artworkthe Millennials, musical instrument and manuscript those before, in between and since – have all their own cyclical pattern, and the history of humanity has been broken in and will be formed by the twenty interplay of just four months leading up to this book's releasedifferent kinds, running (with only one exception) in regular order. Our collators have scoured the press for those and other, similarly noteworthy auctionsI don't really hold much store by that, and found what other people paid for what you I certainly didn't know you would we'd started one since the Millennials – who the heck decides such things, for one? ''Somebody must have wanted given put out an order'', as someone here says of something else. But in the moneysame way as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words – and those words are certainly a clue to what was important, predominant and of course spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684900</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie PainHalliday_Cathedrals|title=Farmer Buckley's Exploding TrousersCathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday

|genre=Popular ScienceTrivia|summary=The history What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically the principal church of science anywhere that is filled with many miraculous discoveries. ..made a city – St Davids is a village of 2,000 people and wasn't always a city, but always had a cathedral, as did Chelmsford.It's also filled with exploding trousers, self-experimentationnot the seat of a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and hasn't had a coachmanbishop since 1690. It's leg not a minster – that becomes 's something completely different, and if you can understand the sign in the delightful Beverley Minster describing the difference, that I saw only the other month, you're a museum piece and gas-powered radiosbetter man I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book doesn''Farmer Buckleyt touch on minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, so it's Exploding Trousers'' regales us only the vast majority of this book that is saddled with fifty odd events on the way to scientific discoverydefinition problem. Part popular science bookIt's clearly not a real problem, part triviaand those it does have are by-passable, each article is for this successfully defines a treat to read, either cathedral as a fun-sized nuggetsomewhere of major importance, or when reading from cover to coverfine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685087</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter GillBramley_Shakespeare|title=42 - Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and EverythingThe Shakespeare Trail|author=Zoe Bramley|rating=54

|summary=A common question about Douglas Adams’ famous Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is just why Adams chose It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the number 42 man heralded as the answer to lifegreatest writer in the English language, the universe and everythingEngland's national poet, died. In Shakespeare has made a charming trivia bookprofound mark on our culture and heritage, author Peter Gill takes 50 pages or so to look into the story yet many aspects of his life remain in the book shadows, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Here, Zoe Bramley takes the author and another 250 reader on a journey through hundreds of places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a surprise to find occurrences most. Filled with intriguing tidbits of 42 in the worlds of sportinformation about Shakespeare, crimeElizabethan England, science and a wide range of other fieldsthe places that she talks about, this is no mere travel guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907616128</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher WinnHalliday_London|title=I Never Knew That About the River ThamesLondon (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday

|summary=Here are What makes a city? Is it the materials, such as the remains very London Stone itself, of the building mythological repute, that could be said to have sired two important British royal dynasties. has moved around several times, and now forms part of a WH Smith's branch? Here is the place (This has nothing, of ill-reputecourse, where 'Rule Britannia' was premieredon Temple Bar, and which has also bizarrely saw a death been known to walk.) Is it the people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: Whitechapel by cricket ball that inspired John Bennett and Paul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]], the bakers (or whoever set fire to the most famous gardens in entire city from Pudding Lane) and the world. candlestick makers? Here too is Is it the infrastructure, from the largest lion 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 highly unlikely the world. To where am I referringThames will freeze again? Well However you define a city, London certainly has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful, and the answer is either the Thames valleytrivial yet fascinating. And, luckily for us, or so has this very book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933579</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mick O'HareHolland_Railways|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, Railways (Amazing 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>}} {{newreviewExtraordinary Facts)|author=Phil Cousineau|title=Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful WordsJulian Holland|rating=3.5

|summary=I formed a newHow and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of York (George VI)? They reopened the Romney, close friendship recentlyHythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, and one of at whose launch the first things I subtly dropped into things was latter had officiated before the fact that I might use a different dictionary to other peopleWar. Probably there was a subconscious thought forming What's the worst that it would be better to make it known, in case I trod can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on any toesa London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, said anything that didnif you't go down quite re an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as well as I had planned. But that's nothing compared an unknown corpse before the invoice turns up to what Phil Cousineau has done here, for he has written his own dictionary, and got it published prove you were wanted in a very nice, glossy, browsable formBelgium. AlrightAfter so many miles and so much drama, it's nothing like a complete dictionary, but everything no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our country's trains. This book is here in his own personal style - 250 main words, definitions, derivations and examples designed to be an ideal source of use. Oh, quick articles and some modernfun mini-ish artworks as wellessays for use in the smallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1573444006</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John AndrewsDonald_Words|title=The Economist Book Words of Ismsa Feather|author=Graeme Donald

|summary=I'm assuming all readers Words of this booka Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and this review, will know the meanings of the book certainly delivers. It pairs seemingly unrelated words racism, atheism digs up their etymological roots and Communismreveals their common ancestry. But how about Orphism? Nestorianism? Vorticism? Or the exact difference between egoismThe English language, egotismof course, and egocentrism? I'll confess to ignorance on all provides rich pickings indeed for a book of that second trio of words before reading this book, but was fascinated type and it is fascinating to find out what they were. (Orphism is a religion originating in 6th or 7th century BC Greece based on see the poems of Orpheus, who returned from Hadeshidden meaning behind common and not-so-common words. I'll leave Some connections are fairly obvious once you to find out read them. For example, the definitions of the other two yourself!) Similarly, I was aware of all three of that final trilogy, but am not sure I even knew there link between ''grotto''wasand ''grotesque' a difference, let alone that I'd have come close is easy to being able to actually define them all as this volume does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682983</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susie Dent|title=How to Talk Like a Localgrasp: From Cockney to Geordie, a National Companion|rating=4.5|genre=Trivia|summary=Meeting a grammersow the word ''grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in a netty is more common than you might think - IAncient Roman ''grottoes''d put my revits on it. Having a neb around these pages I can find many different ways of saying Other connections are just extraordinary, like the above, as well so- or should that be boco ways. But before this review comes out as complete cagcrazy-mag, I'd better say this book is just as you-couldn'd expect t- an amenable, approachable but intelligent look at regional idiom and slang, in Amake-Z dictionary form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211791</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Derrick Niederman|title=Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=This is a book that definitely does what it says on the tin. Our author has the capacity to grab each number -up link between one ''furnace'' and ''fornicate''. These two hundred, and wring it for all its worth - all words date back to Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the special status it might have in our culture (city's abandoned baking domes. And some connections are more easy with seven thana little tenuous, sayseemingly just a collection of words banded together, 187), all as is the case with the special properties it might possess (perfect, triangular, prime), ''insult'' and as many other things mathematicians and so on would find ''salmon'' pairing. One of interest. Luckily there is enough here my personal favourites: the Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used to summon or dismiss a slave; this word became corrupted to make ''ciao'', a word the book more well worth a browse for -heeled among us who would not deem themselves number buffsuse instead of ''goodbye''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071563710X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=AQA 63336Binney_English|title=More Brilliant AnswersThe English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Ruth Binney

|summary=If youI live in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring it, so the chance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside've got a question you can text those nice people at AQA 63336 and they'll do their best was too good to provide you with a prompt and accurate answerbe missed. Over the last five years theyWe've answered some twenty million questions met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and each autumn they publish a interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book with the best and most interesting of the year's answers. ThereIt's some fun to be had in this year's book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683262</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tad Tuleja|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words a hardback and Phrases|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Take a look at beautifully presented but its the cover design size of this book, and that you'd be mistaken for thinking this was slip into a trivia compendium for all those foreign words that have taken part in our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homespocket or handbag. But the title is definitely honest, for this is a dictionary book first, for reference, and a browser for the trivia buff second.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>Would it be rather superficial?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel VreemanLloyd_1234|title=Don't Swallow Your Gum1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin

|genre=LifestyleTrivia|summary=''No US President has ever died in May.'' ''There are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there are men named John.'BANG' ''Dogs investigate bad smells with their right nostril and good smells with their left. '' That''Apollo 11's fuel consumption was seven inches to the sound of copious urban myths being shot downgallon. '' ''The first occupational disease ever recorded in medical literature was 'chimney sweep'BANGs scrotum'.''. That's the sound of the old wives slamming the door, as their tales get revealed as baseless. 'The song 'Yes, We Have No Bananas'CLICKwas written by Leon Trotsky's nephew.''. That's 'In the 18th Century, King George I declared all pigeon droppings to be the noise lots property of ill-informed websites make as they get closed downthe Crown''. All noises come due I hardly think I need to this brilliant booksay any more. Review over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin ScroggieBerenson_How|title=Eye Spy: Uncovering the Secrets of the World Around YouHow to Speak Emoji|author=Fred Benenson

|summary=Signs Emojis are everywhere. I wasnfun, and there't really one s so much more to them than the smileys of those who thought our roads were littered with too many traffic signs until the day I was driven past days gone by ;) They can be a pair of speed regulation signslanguage unto themselves, though, positioned at the exit end and I've found that some members of a one-way street but facing the illegal way up it. Not all signs, of courseahem, are quite as unnecessaryolder generation can find themselves a little troubled by them. This book, or indeed as blatantly visiblethen, which is where sounds perfect for anyone who needs a little help with this pictorial guide to countless coded messages, signifiers and other similar factoids comes in'language'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994487</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Allen Lloyd_3rd|title=Where Are They Now? - Rediscovering Over 100 Football Stars QI: The Third Book of the 70s General Ignorance|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and 80s Andrew Hunter Murray

|genre=SportTrivia|summary=This looks like some peopleWell done, Hartlepool. You didn's worst idea of t put on trial and kill a shipwrecked monkey thinking it a book, Napoleonic spy – any more than the several other places thusly accused everdid. TriviaWell done, nostalgiaItaly, footballfor making the ciabatta such a global phenomenon it seems like a traditional foodstuff, and lists - does even if it get more masculine? There's not a female was invented in sight1982. And well done to that famous ice hockey player, eitherCharles Darwin – who was probably playing it, seeing as we get 101 portraits it was a British invention, long before the Canadians ever realised they might be good at it. Yes, for a book that spends a lot of footballers from times pastits time saying 'this didn’t happen, ' 'hoojamaflip didn't do this,' and 'that was never thus', it's one that's incredibly easy to be most importantly, a summary of their career since hanging up the boots in the professional gamepositive about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905156421</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip ArdaghTaggart_New|title=Philip Ardagh's Book of Howlers, Blunders and Random MistakeryNew Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World|author=Caroline Taggart|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTrivia|summary=ThereI never declare myself off to have a 'kip's nought so queer , as I recall reading that it originally meant the same amount of sleeping – and activity – as folkhappens in a whorehouse. From the idiot who broke into a car without realising his name The word 'cleave' can mean either to split apart or to connect together, and date I'm sure there's another word that has completely changed its meaning from one end of birth were clearly seen on his tattoo on CCTVthings to another although I can't remember which. Certainly, ''literally'' has tried its best to make a full switch through rampant misuse. Such is the people who ordered someone to paint clothes on all nature of our language – fluid both in spelling until moderately recently, and definitely in meaning. This attempt at capturing a corner of the people trivia/words/novelty market is interested in such tales from the Sistine Chapel - before others came along who decided etymological world – the original had been betterway we have adapted old words for our own, modern and the people who dismissed The Beatles as never likely to make a name for themselvesperhaps very different usages. We have long been Certainly, having browsed it over a week, I can declare it a race of idiotspretty strong attempt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330471724</amazonuk>