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Focusing on the English of the 20th and 21st centuries, this impressive volume examines the linguistic and cultural significance of over 7,500 popular words and phrases. Its highly browsable encyclopedic entries cover topics as diverse as catchphrases, buzzwords, characters from film, TV and literature, slogans, idioms and modern cultural references. From Harry Potter to Posh and Becks, Chelsea tractors to 'cheap as chips', Brewer's Modern Phrase and Fable defines the world we live in.
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Ian Crofton has compiled many works of reference, books of quotations and miscellanies over the yers, including A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (with Donald Fraser), A Dictionary of Art Quotations, The Guinness Encyclopedia (as editor-in-chief), Brewer's Dictionary of Curious Titles, and, with John Ayto Brewer's Britain and Ireland and the 2nd edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable. He lives in North London.
John Ayto is the author of numerous works of reference including the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins and The Gourmet's Guide. He was a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Food. He lives in London.
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- PublisherChambers
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0550105646
- ISBN 13 9780550105646
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages868
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