Paul Anthony Jones

Word Drops

A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A beautiful and irresistible collection of trivia for wordsmiths and lovers of language

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elliott & Thompson Limited
• 2 New edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9781783964376
• ISBN-10: 1783964375
• Artikelnr.: 57004898

Autorenporträt

Paul Anthony Jones is the author of several books on trivia and language including The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities, The Accidental Dictionary, Word Drops, The British Isles: A Trivia Gazetteer, Haggard Hawks & Paltry Poltroons and its sequel, Jedburgh Justice & Kentish Fire. He appears regularly in the Telegraph online, BBC Radio 4's World at One, Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post and Mental Floss, and has contributed to the Guardian, Independent and Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries online. He also runs @HaggardHawks, the hugely popular language-based Twitter account and YouTube channel. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.