Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable: 2nd Edition by Ian Crofton

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable: 2nd Edition by Ian Crofton

The first edition of BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF MODERN PHRASE AND FABLE was warmly praised when it was first published in 2000. BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF MODERN PHRASE AND FABLE focuses not just on the linguistic and cultural resonance of thousands of contemporary words and phrases, but also on the riches of the modern verbal imagination as expressed in a host of titles, characters and allusions from cultural arenas as diverse as film, literature, art, music, comic strips and computer games. For this second edition, new editors John Ayto and Ian Crofton have polished, revised and updated the entire existing text and added some 1000 new articles. The latter include recent words and phrases (bootylicious and 9/11), words and characters from recent literature (daemon, Hogwarts), and - continuing the century-old Brewer's practice of recording unexpected information that is not available in other general reference books - a range of 'list entries' on topics as diverse as words and phrases in British Asian English and some unfamiliar foreign translations of well-known movie titles.

"I can't remember when I last learnt quite so many different things from one book" -- Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday "..peerless...Brewer's has kept ahead of the game by compiling this marvelous compendium...It has captured the flavour of the past 100 years" -- The Times

Ian Crofton is a freelance writer and editor. His publications include A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (with Donald Fraser) and A Dictionary of Art Quotations and he was editor-in-chief of The Guinness Encyclopedia. He contributed entries on history, music and art to Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable and has written articles for a number of other children's and adults' reference books.

John Ayto is a writer and lexicographer. He is the editor of the 17th edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and co-author (with Ian Crofton) of Brewer's Britain and Ireland. His other authorial credits include The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang and The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Histories. He lives in London.

Previous titles include:

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable: 1st Ed (Feb 2001)

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ISBN 13	9780304368099
ISBN 10	0304368091
Titel	Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable: 2nd Edition
Autor	Ian Crofton
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	John Murray Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-10-27
Seitenanzahl	870
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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