Jolly wicked, actually : the 100 words that make us English /
Jolly wicked actually takes certain well-loved and crucial expressions such as sorry, nice, common, posh, cuppa, and chippy, explores their strange and wonderful origins, and demonstrates with wit and charm how they are emblems of an era or an attitude, of a heritage and of the traits and quirks ess...
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Language: | English |
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London :
Little, Brown,
2009
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