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The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Paperback – 2 Nov. 2017
Barry Cryer (Author) See search results for this author |
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Do words fail you? Never again, once you've become the proud owner of The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary.
Every word has a meaning, but over the years those meanings change. Dip into these helpfully illustrated pages and you'll find many of the words you use every day without ever realising that their up-to-date definition is something entirely different.
Words like 'bunny' (rather like a bun), or 'cherish' (rather like a chair), 'Cardiology' (the study of knitwear) or 'buggery' (the study of insects), 'Venezuala' (a gondola with a harpoon) or 'Norway' (a Geordie exclamation of surprise), 'ivy' (the Roman for "four") or 'faculty' (cockney for "there's no more PG Tips").
Thanks to The Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary you can now use familiar, everyday words in total confidence, fully appraised of their latest meanings. Happy wording!
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWindmill Books
- Publication date2 Nov. 2017
- Dimensions12.7 x 2.29 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-101784756490
- ISBN-13978-1784756499
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Tim was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, and studied at various schools in Buxton and Winchester before beginning an Economics and Law degree course at Cambridge University. In 1963, he became President of Footlights, the revue club in which he wrote and performed with Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Jonathan Lynn and others. He toured extensively with the revue, Cambridge Circus, before moving into television.
In 1958 Barry Cryer had a Number 1 hit record in Finland with the song 'Purple People Eater' by Sheb Wooley. Over his 50-year career he has written for, among many, Morecambe and Wise, Bruce Forsyth, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd, Bob Hope and Richard Pryor. He is a comedy legend.
Jon Naismith has produced on Radio: Week Ending, The Skivers, The News Quiz, Quote…Unquote, Elastic Planet, For One Horrible Moment, And I’m the Queen of Sheba, The Labour Exchange, Do Go On and About A Dog all for BBC Radio 4, as well as twenty years of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, recently voted the second greatest Radio programme of all time after The Goons. He also co-created The Unbelievable Truth.
On TV he has produced and co-devised Bring Me The Head of Light Entertainment with Graham Norton and It’s Only TV But I Like It with Jonathan Ross, Jack Dee, Phill Jupitus and Julian Clary and has produced This Week Only with Joe Cornish, Nick Frost, Chris Addison and Lauren Laverne for Channel 4, God Almighty with Clive Anderson for Channel 5, The Smith & Jones Sketchbook with Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones for BBC1 and Shane with Frank Skinner for ITV1.
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- Publisher : Windmill Books; Reprint edition (2 Nov. 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1784756490
- ISBN-13 : 978-1784756499
- Dimensions : 12.7 x 2.29 x 19.69 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 9,377 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This has been updated to include many of my personal recent favourites, including Graeme Garden's "Jamaican" series (e.g. Grating: a Jamaican Elephant) and Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor's celebrated "Yorkshire" series (Trifle: a Yorkshire Rifle).
All it misses are the team's drole delivery. Ah well...you can't have it all.
So one to cherish (and no, not as in "being somewhat chair-like").
This makes an ideal and unusual gift for a reader, English language student or indeed anyone with a sense of humour! It is the sort of book that should be left out on a table and can be opened up at any page.