Jolly wicked, actually
Subtitle: the 100 words that make us English
By: Tony Thorne.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781408700891
Subjects: Vocabulary; English language -- Terms and phrases; English language -- Spoken English; National characteristics, English
Genres: Terms and phrases
Description: 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 attitude, of a heritage and of the traits and quirks essential to all our notions of Englishness -- publisher description.