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Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain

Autor Susie Dent
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 oct 2017

Learn how to decode the private languages that are swapped around us every day - amongst cabbies and paramedics, soap stars and comedians, cricketers and barristers - in Susie Dent's unique and witty guide to Britain's modern tribes.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781473623897
ISBN-10: 1473623898
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

A fabulous read for anyone who loves words, and wants to learn some more. Funny, fact-filled and delightful
Wonderfully clever and funny . . . a national treasury from a national treasure
A fascinating, joyful look at the tribes all around us, from twitchers to taxi-drivers. A must
I thought only criminals had their own words for everything. Dent's Modern Tribes shows me quite how wrong I was
Sparkles with gentle wit, fascinating illustration, and linguistic insight
A brilliant, funny, wise, and illuminating canter through the languages of modern tribes
Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words
The keys to the mysterious Kingdom of Jargon
This phrasebook is like no other and will help anyone talk the talk - whatever that might be
Thoroughly entertaining and illuminating
Fascinating study of expressions . . . Dent is something of a modern-day Professor Henry Higgins
A work of considerable interest and charm, dishing up verbal pleasures and surprises on virtually every page

Notă biografică

Susie Dent is the resident word expert in Dictionary Corner on C4's Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and has been on every programme about words: 15 x 15, Word of Mouth, and More or Less. Susie also writes regularly for the Radio Times, The Week Junior and The I, and her Word of the Day has attracted over 1,000,000 followers on Twitter.