Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words That Make Us English by Tony Thorne

Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words That Make Us English

Tony Thorne

345 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This is a compendium of the 100 words and phrases that have over the last century become the cornerstones of modern spoken English, and have been used, sometimes deliberately, to stake out the common identity that unites the English.

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