Author:The English Project
With an afterword by David Crystal and contributions from Philip Pullman, Jilly Cooper, Jeremy Vine and Meera Syal, all life is here. Become part of the Kitchen Table Lingo community and write your words in now!
'Seen the bloke with the bedooftey bum?'
'More testiculating on Newsnight......'
Does it sometimes seem like your family speaks its own language?
Families up and down the UK have their own special vocabularies. Discover tinsellitis sufferers in Tunbridge Wells, elephant users in Edinburgh and chobblers in Cardiff. Whether it's a slip of the tongue that becomes a permanent part of the family vernacular or a word invented when all others fail, Kitchen Table Lingo is part of what makes our language so rich and creative. This collection of hundreds of words from English speakers around the world - complete with space and an invitation to add your own - is a wonderfully entertaining celebration of the spoken word and the people who take pleasure in it.
After all, what other language has fifty-seven words for the TV remote control?
This wonderful book guides you through the perils and pitfalls [of good English]
—— Natasha Harding , SunWitty, incredibly well informed, well researched and clever
—— Alastair Campbell'The breathless tour of linguistic oddities from around the globe has its own empirical delight... McWhorter is a kind of linguistic David Attenborough... The fascination is in his detail, the sheer case-by-case weirdness of languages'
—— Guardian[A] rollicking memoir.
—— Iain Finlayson , SagaUnusual… Moving… Magnificent.
—— Sam Leith , GuardianA new fascinating exploration of the words that Americans and Brits both use and how they can have different meanings altogether… Moore is a very engaging writer… an excellent springboard for more research into the history of our magnificent and maddening language.
—— Anglotopia, Book of the YearThe ocean that divides England and America is awash with linguistic wreckage and cultural tumult. But Erin Moore’s study of these infested waters is serene, assured and hugely entertaining. They should hand her book out at border control.
—— Simon Garfield, author of Just My TypeOne thing that makes Gowers such an engaging figure is that he isn't prissy, priggish or prim. As far as he is concerned, language is a living thing that is constantly changing - and this is just as it should be
—— Sunday TelegraphStill the best book on English and how to write it ... Unhappy with versions rewritten by others, Rebecca Gowers, Sir Ernest's great-granddaughter, has produced a new edition ... The result is splendid ... Gowers wrote with wit, humanity and common sense ... [his] central advice should be taped to the screen of anyone sitting down at a computer keyboard
—— Michael Skapinker , Financial TimesThe book has been modernized but preserves all its original charm ... There is arguably a greater need for its circulation among the general public [than ever before]
—— Big IssueThe zeal with which Sir Ernest uncovers error is matched only by the wit with which he chastises it
—— Evening StandardI am glad that attention should be continually drawn to copies of this book ... I am in full sympathy with the doctrine laid down by Sir Ernest Gowers
—— Sir Winston ChurchillA delight, a classic of its kind
—— John o'London's WeeklyGreat fun to read
—— EconomistBrilliant
—— New StatesmanA sweetly reasonable and wholly admirable guide
—— The TimesIt will delight far wider circles than those to whom it is primarily addressed
—— ObserverPersonal and affectionate tribute
—— Sally Morris , Daily MailAffectionate, familial tribute to this many-sided man.
—— The Catholic Herald
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