Shoot the Puppy

Oct 3, 2024 7:25 AM

Author:Tony Thorne

Shoot the Puppy

Are you a bobo or a wombat? Are you tempted by infobia or to kick dead whales up the beach? If your answer to any of these questions is 'What are you talking about?', then you definitely need a copy of Shoot the Puppy. Amusing, informative and newly updated for 2007, it guides the reader through the ever-growing heap of contemporary jargon from around the English-speaking world, showing where it comes from, what it means, and what it tells us about our contemporary world.

Reviews

Michael Quinion's World Wide Words is the web authority on English etymology (word origins) and usage-come here for definitive information on some of the most interesting, amusing and downright weird words and phrases in the English language.

—— Cambridge Dictionaries Online web site (February 2003)

With his usual wit and occasional obscenity, he takes us through an array of metrical forms and poetic structures, talking to us like a cajoling hearty teacher

—— Sunday Telegraph

Intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed

—— Observer

A smart, sane and entertaining return to basics

—— Daily Telegraph

Funny and instructive

—— Spectator

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