How to talk like a local : from Cockney to Geordie, a national companion /
Dent, Susie.
How to talk like a local : from Cockney to Geordie, a national companion / Susie Dent. - London : Arrow, 2011. - 224 p. ; 18 cm.
Originally published: London: Random House, 2010. Includes index.
If you were a Londoner visiting Cornwall would you know how to recognise an grammersow? And if you were from the West Country and took a trip to Scotland, would you be bewildered if someone described you as crabbit? This title gathers together and explains hundreds of local words that you would never find in an ordinary dictionary.
9780099514763 (pbk.) : £7.99 0099514761 (pbk.) : £7.99
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How to talk like a local : from Cockney to Geordie, a national companion / Susie Dent. - London : Arrow, 2011. - 224 p. ; 18 cm.
Originally published: London: Random House, 2010. Includes index.
If you were a Londoner visiting Cornwall would you know how to recognise an grammersow? And if you were from the West Country and took a trip to Scotland, would you be bewildered if someone described you as crabbit? This title gathers together and explains hundreds of local words that you would never find in an ordinary dictionary.
9780099514763 (pbk.) : £7.99 0099514761 (pbk.) : £7.99
English language--Dialects--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Languages.
427'.003