num_pages: 208
description: What should we call 'something that looks like minced beef but isn't'? Minsk of course! 'Luxuriant nostril hairs'? Utrillas! Three decades after Douglas Adams and QI creator John Lloyd compiled The Meaning of Liff here is a new collection of more than 900 familiar things that have hitherto remained unnamed an oversight now corrected by recycling the appellations of places near and far.
language: English
title: Afterliff: The New Dictionary of Things There Should Be Words For
publisher: Faber & Faber