Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words that Make Us English by Tony Thorne

Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words that Make Us English

Tony Thorne

345 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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Jolly wicked actually takes certain well-loved and crucial expressions such as sorry, nice, common, posh, cuppa, and chippy, explores their strange and wonderful origins, and demonstrates with wit and charm how they are emblems of an era or an att...

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