Potty, Fartwell and Knob: From Luke Warm to Minty Badger - Extraordinary but True Names of British People - Hardcover

Ash, Russell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755316541 ISBN 13: 9780755316540

Publisher: Headline, 2007

Synopsis

Russell Ash has trawled parish registers and censuses going back 900 years to compile the first ever complete book of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true British names. It features an incredible and diverse range of totally genuine names, evoking everything from body parts (Dick Brain), sex (Matilda Suckcock), illness (Barbaray Headache) and toilet functions (Peter Piddle) to food (Hazel Nutt), animals (Minty Badger) and places (Phila Delphia). Every single one has been checked for authenticity and its source is given, as well as extra notes where further fascinating illumination is possible. The book provides a rigorously researched yet laugh-out-loud overview of Britain's eccentricity through the ages.

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Review:

'Hilarious... all of [the names] make you happy to belong to a people who believe it is their patriotic duty not to take themselves too seriously'
-- Allison Pearson, Daily Mail, October 3 2007

Book Description:

Painstakingly researched, utterly true, hilariously entertaining book documenting the unusual, hilarious, silly and downright ridiculous names that have existed in Britain in the last millennium

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0755316541
• ISBN 13: 9780755316540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256