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The Completely Superior Person's Book of Words

English · Hardback

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Zusatztext 'Will unquestionably establish you as the most interesting person at any dinner party' Informationen zum Autor Peter Bowler Klappentext 'Words are not only tools; they are also weapons.' Peter Bowler's guides, as his thousands of fans worldwide already know, are witty, charming, and clever volumes that introduce weird and wonderful words. Now the three volumes are published in a collected edition for the first time to provide words to help you wriggle out of sticky debates, deal with obnoxious dinner guests and fill in sick leave application forms with panache. A picturesque panoply of words of which neither you nor anyone else has ever heard, Bowler provides not only an expanded range of words themselves, but also a genuine sense how to employ them to devastating effect. The Completely Superior Person's Book of Words is an arsenal of over a thousand sonifacient verbal weapons with which to verbigerate your friends and gorgonise your enemies. All three volumes of The Superior Persons' Books of Words , re-organised as one A-Z bumper volume. Zusammenfassung 'Words are not only tools; they are also weapons.' Peter Bowler's guides, as his thousands of fans worldwide already know, are witty, charming, and clever volumes that introduce weird and wonderful words. Now the three volumes are published in a collected edition for the first time to provide words to help you wriggle out of sticky debates, deal with obnoxious dinner guests and fill in sick leave application forms with panache. A picturesque panoply of words of which neither you nor anyone else has ever heard, Bowler provides not only an expanded range of words themselves, but also a genuine sense how to employ them to devastating effect. The Completely Superior Person's Book of Words is an arsenal of over a thousand sonifacient verbal weapons with which to verbigerate your friends and gorgonise your enemies. ...

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Product details

Authors Peter Bowler, Bowler Peter
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 02.11.2009
 
EAN 9781408806357
ISBN 978-1-4088-0635-7
No. of pages 400
Dimensions 140 mm x 205 mm x 35 mm
Subjects Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies

HUMOR / General, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Humour, Usage & grammar guides, Usage and grammar guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary

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