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

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作者Russell Ash

出版社Headline

ISBN9780755316557

出版时间2014

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页数336页

货号L24

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品相描述：八五品: Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Headline (2 Oct. 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 075531655X
ISBN-13: 978-0755316557
Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 2.8 x 19.7 cm

商品描述: 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. And in this fully revised, expanded and enhanced paperback edition, it is no exaggeration to say that it's Pottier, Fartier and Knobbier than ever before.

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