Words, Words, WordsWhat is your problem if you are ringled to a flazzard? When is Chewidden Day? How might you get out of the langle? Why is going for a dacker a quite innocent activity in one place, but something rather more lewd elsewhere? Words, Words, Words probes lexicography, dialect, sexual practices, sport and social history to create a humorous and informative guide to some of the more bizarre byways of the English language. If youve ever had trouble telling

In 1935 he married Helen Hooker

’ also captures the voices of both the leadership and the rank and file: the detached and often inappropriate orders from above

They take for subjects both individuals and institutions

As they sail to their first posting in India

George Moore

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complete with individual bibliographies

County Monaghan

and the poems of High Island

Pieces on American literature include a vignette of Saul Bellow

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John Moriarty’s earlier works of mystical philosophy