Afterliff [Hardcover], The Meaning of Liff [Hardcover] & The Yorkshire Meaning of Liff 3 Books Collection Set

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Afterliff [Hardcover]:
ISBN-10 : 057130169X
ISBN-13 : 978-0571301690
A liff is a familiar object or experience that English has no word for. Afterliff, its long-awaited sequel, corrects this disgraceful oversight by recycling the names found on signposts.This brilliant successor to Douglas Adams' and John Lloyd's 1983 classic The Meaning of Liff features over 900 essential new definitions, including:Anglesey n.Hypothetical object at which a lazy eye is looking.

The Meaning of Liff [Hardcover]:
ISBN-10 : 0752227599
ISBN-13 : 978-0752227597
In life, there are hundreds of familiar experiences, feelings and objects for which no words exist, yet hundreds of strange words are idly loafing around on signposts, pointing at places. The Meaning of Liff connects the two.BERRIWILLOCK (n.) - An unknown workmate who writes 'All the best' on your leaving card.ELY (n.) - The first, tiniest inkling that something, somewhere has gone terribly wrong.GRIMBISTER (n.) - Large body of cars on a motorway all travelling at exactly the speed limit because one of them is a police car.

The Yorkshire Meaning of Liff:
ISBN-10 : 0957639988
ISBN-13 : 978-0957639980
This is the Yorkshire edition of the humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, created by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. If you opened this book expecting to find a variety of quaint thee and thy-based colloquialisms with the odd "ee-by-gum" and "tha'll be reet" thrown in for good measure, you may be a little disappointed...

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