[Lexicog] Book recommendation

[Fritz Goerling]

Martin Manser, who is described as "One of Britain's leading lexicographers"
and David Pickering wrote this year’s “top book on language”

Buttering Parsnips Twocking Chavs: the secret life of the English language
by Martin H. Manser and David Pickering, was published in August; 272 pages;
£9.99. ISBN-10: 029-785349X; ISBN-13: 978-0297853497. It has been featured
in the press (especially the Daily Mail) and also on BBC radio. The Good
Book Guide described it as “a delectably whimsical guide to English”.

Fritz Goerling

 

 

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