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The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words ...

Douglas Adams, John Lloyd - Humor - 2005 - 181 pages
A rollicking, thought-provoking dictionary for the modern age, featuring definitions for those things we don't have words for, from the New York Times bestselling author behind ...
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Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business ...

Leslie Savan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 320 pages
In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling ...
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Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Thought You Knew the Meaning Of

Jeff Foxworthy - Humor - 2009 - 160 pages
Hey, you! The one holding the book. Have you ever seen a volume like this? Well, whether you realize it or not, it’s the one you’ve been waiting for. Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck ...
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Semantricks: A Dictionary of Words You Thought You Knew

Lewis M. Gediman, Nino DeNicola, Paul Gediman, Michael B. Laudor - Humor - 2008 - 144 pages
At last, a book for the American Idle. Here is a punny new dictionary of inventive definitions of real words. Acrimony: Spousal support payments following bitter divorce ...
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Things That Make Us (Sic): The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar ...

Martha Brockenbrough - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2008 - 280 pages
This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who's ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper ...
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How to Speak Southern

Steve Mitchell - Humor - 2009 - 66 pages
This tongue-in-cheek dictionary of Southern words and phrases offers a hilarious spoof of the Southern accent. This book is dedicated to all Yankees* in the hope that it will ...
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The Hipster Handbook

Robert Lanham - Humor - 2008 - 178 pages
A hilarious book that will teach you everything you need to know to be too cool for school: "Your official guide to the language, culture and style of hipsters young and old ...
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Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses ...

Stephen Dodson, Robert Vanderplank - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2009 - 170 pages
The most curious, funny, insightful, and expressive invectives from more than forty languages-fully illustrated, you miserable misokakku. "Misokkasu": Scum of soya paste ...
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Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul

Charles Timoney - Foreign Language Study - 2008 - 262 pages
From getting the best value from the boulangerie to ordering a steak without getting sneered at, an A-to-Z guide to fitting in en Français Englishman Charles Timoney was thrown ...
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