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A jubilant celebration of British English's most wonderful moments (and of the island nations that came up with them). We British are an eccentric population with a culture that is suitably, and uniquely, barmy. We invented trainspotting and raves; we love saying 'please' and 'thank you' to strangers in the street but then shouting at them in football grounds; we taught the world how to write great pop music but also how to make a jolly good cup of tea. From out of this higgledy-piggledy culture have emerged the thousands of brilliantly British words and phrases we use to define it. This book is a celebration of these linguistic gems, and of the people and culture they describe.
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Quite Brilliant, Gerry Breslin
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
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- Titel
- Quite Brilliant
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Gerry Breslin
- Verlag
- Collins
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2012
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0007485794
- ISBN13
- 9780007485796
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Weltliteratur
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- A jubilant celebration of British English's most wonderful moments (and of the island nations that came up with them). We British are an eccentric population with a culture that is suitably, and uniquely, barmy. We invented trainspotting and raves; we love saying 'please' and 'thank you' to strangers in the street but then shouting at them in football grounds; we taught the world how to write great pop music but also how to make a jolly good cup of tea. From out of this higgledy-piggledy culture have emerged the thousands of brilliantly British words and phrases we use to define it. This book is a celebration of these linguistic gems, and of the people and culture they describe.