The Wonder of Whiffling: (and Other Extraordinary Words in the English Language)

Author description

Adam Jacot de Boinod, hunter of perfect and obscure bon mots, is a true linguistic bowerbird (a person who collects an astonishing array of - sometimes useless - objects).He trawled the languages of the world for exotic specimens in his bestselling book The Meaning of Tingo and hit follow-up Toujours Tingo and has now turned his attention to his mother tongue in The Wonder of Whiffling.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9780140515855
• Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint : Particular Books
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 256
• Dewey classification : 428
• Bind : Hardback
• Author : Adam Jacot de Boinod