Download or read book Nobbut a Yellerbelly written by Alan Stennent and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With hilarious cartoons from Richard Scollins and amusing text, this book provides a feast of linguistic fun - and captures well the warmth and humour of the Lincolnshire people. A celebration of the rich Lincolnshire dialect.
Download or read book Folklore of Lincolnshire written by Susanna O'Neill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The county of Lincolnshire is a beautiful mixture of low-lying marshy fen land, modest hills and the steep valleys of the rolling Wolds; it is also home to a wealth of folklore, legend and intrigue. With one of the most interesting dialects in the country, this vast region is also rich in superstitions, songs and traditional games. A study of the daily life, lore and customs of Lincolnshire are here interspersed with stories of monstrous black hounds, dragon lairs, witches, Tiddy Mun, mischievous imps and tales of the people known as the Yellowbellies. This fully illustrated book explores the origins and meanings of Lincolnshire's traditions and shows how the customs of the past have influenced the ways of the present.
Download or read book Researching Northern English written by Raymond Hickey and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The volume covers the history of English in this area as well as providing incisive studies of both the varieties of English spoken in cities and in larger parts of the area. In addition, the collection contains a number of interface studies, e.g. concerned with the borders of the North of England, both to Scotland and the South of England or dealing with second-language varieties of Northern English or with additional issues, such as enregisterment. All these contributions help to draw a comprehensive picture of this key area of the English-speaking world and point the way forward for future research.
Download or read book The Little Book of Lincolnshire written by Lucy Wood and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present. Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Lincolnshire’s famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, loony laws, customs ancient and modern, transport, battles and ghostly inhabitants.A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Download or read book East Midlands English written by Natalie Braber and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what this area includes.
Download or read book Guide to Lincolnshire Pub Walks written by Catherine Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Language of London written by Daniel Smith and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to the vibrant and inventive language of the East End, featuring history, trivia and anecdotes.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex written by William Douglas Parish and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dirty Japanese written by Matt Fargo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn cool slang, funny insults and all the words they didn’t teach you in class with this comprehensive guide to dirty Japanese. You’ve taken Japanese lessons and learned all kinds of useful phrases. You know how to order dinner, get directions, and ask for the bathroom. But what happens when it’s time to drop the textbook formality? To really know a language, you need to know it’s bad words, too. You need Dirty Japanese. From common slang and insulting curses to explicit sexual expressions, this volume teaches the kind of Japanese heard heard every day on the streets from Tokyo to Kyoto from “What’s up?” (Ossu?) to “I’m smashed,” (Beron beron ni nattekita.).
Download or read book Lingo written by Gaston Dorren and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal). Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent’s ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today’s remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word “you.” “In this bubbly linguistic endeavor, journalist and polyglot Dorren thoughtfully walks readers through the weird evolution of languages” (Publishers Weekly), and not just the usual suspects—French, German, Yiddish, irish, and Spanish, Here, too are the esoteric—Manx, Ossetian, Esperanto, Gagauz, and Sami, and that global headache called English. In its sixty bite-sized chapters, Dorret offers quirky and hilarious tidbits of illuminating facts, and also dispels long-held lingual misconceptions (no, Eskimos do not have 100 words for snow). Guaranteed to change the way you think about language, Lingo is a “lively and insightful . . . unique, page-turning book” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).
Download or read book Urban Dictionary written by and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the popular website UrbanDictionary.com, this new edition features the freshest definitions for the words that define our world.
Download or read book It Happened in Lincolnshire written by Associate Professor School of Law David Clark, Ph.D. and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively and inviting series of chapters, this book uncovers the county's myths and legends, its landmarks, battles, crimes, curious customs, colourful clergy, explorers and ghosts.
Download or read book How to Swear Around the World written by Jason Sacher and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this helpful guide, learn to tell people off like a native no matter where you are in the world. An essential phrasebook for the world traveler, How to Swear Around the World features dozens of favorite curses, insults, and sayings from all over the globe. Get rid of a pesky hanger-on in Brazil by telling him to dig for potatoes—vai ceifar batatas. To express disgust toward your brown-nosing German friend, accuse him of being a bicycle-rider—radfahrer, or tell someone off in Laos by letting him know you think his mother enjoys keeping intimate company with dogs—Ma see mea mung! Make new friends and enemies abroad with this handy guide filled with fighting words, scatological expressions, dozens of ways to insult someone’s mother, and many other suitably offensive phrases. Also features phonetic pronunciations and handy illustrations to provide guidance to these colorful exclamations. “As useful as it is hilarious, Sacher’s How to Swear Around the World teaches readers all kinds of vulgar phrases in dozens of different languages. Feel free to call Expedia and curse out their airfare prices using any of the book’s quotes.” —Complex.com
Download or read book How to Give Zero F cks written by Stephen Wildish and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is much too short to give any real amount of f*cks. Who is this book for? People who give too many f*cks to things they shouldn’t give a f*ck about. You have a finite amount of f*cks, spend them wisely. This book contains the word f*ck over 44 thousand times, which is a world record* *Probably, I don’t give a f*ck if that’s true or not and I couldn’t be f*cked to count them.
Download or read book Scottish English English Scottish written by Mary Kean and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haud Ma Chips Ah ve Drapped the Wean written by Allan Morrison and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An hilarious and often wise collection of Scots saying straight from the mouths of the Grannies of Glasgow. With each snippet accompanied by a straightforward English translation, this is your introduction to the unique wisdom of the 'Glesca Granny'.
Download or read book A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield written by Sidney Oldall Addy and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
