The New Uxbridge English Dictionary

by Graeme Garden (Author), Barry Cryer (Author), Barry Cryer (Author), Graeme Garden (Author), Tim Brooke-Taylor (Author), Iain Pattinson (Author), Jon Naismith (Author)

New
Illustrated
2008
$6.94

With The Uxbridge English Dictionary the stars of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue had the nation in stitches. But times move on, words change and their meanings with them. Comedy's most outrageous dictionary is back with a hilarious new collection of definitions for all those English words that don't mean anything like they should. If you have ever pondered the meaning of Platypus (to give your cat pigtails), Flemish (rather like snot) or Celtic (a prison for fleas), then this is the book for you. With nearly 600 new definitions from radio's best loved comedy show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, The New Uxbridge English Dictionary pushes the boundaries of the English language to new side-splitting limits. A must for any fan of British comedy.

Synopsis

With The Uxbridge English Dictionary the stars of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue had the nation in stitches. But times move on, words change and their meanings with them. Comedy's most outrageous dictionary is back with a hilarious new collection of definitions for all those English words that don't mean anything like they should. If you have ever pondered the meaning of Platypus (to give your cat pigtails), Flemish (rather like snot) or Celtic (a prison for fleas), then this is the book for you. With nearly 600 new definitions from radio's best loved comedy show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, The New Uxbridge English Dictionary pushes the boundaries of the English language to new side-splitting limits. A must for any fan of British comedy.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 128
Edition: 18th ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 19 May 2008
ISBN 10: 0007263937
ISBN 13: 9780007263936

Media Reviews

Praise for The Uxbridge English Dictionary:

`Samuel Johnson will be turning in his grave ... a hiliarious new dictionary from Radio 4's comedy series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.' Daily Mail

`This dictionary is funny ... you'll never say the word stopcock with a straight face again.' Daily Record

`A collection of weird and wonderful words culled from the award-winning Radio 4 programme, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue ... Personal favourite? Xenophobia - a fear of Buddhists!' Manchester Evening News

`A gem of quintessentially silly English humour.' Western Daily Press

Praise for I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue:

`One day people will envy us for living through the years when this magnificent half-hour enlivened every Sunday lunchtime. Ours will be known as the Golden Days of Radio.'
Independent on Sunday (Sue Gaisford)

Author Bio

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is Radio 4's best loved comedy show and regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer are regularly given silly things to do by Humphrey Lyttelton, the doyen of quiz-show hosts. Whether the teams are singing the words of one song to the tune of another, making up serial rhymes or entering the mythic maze of Mornington Crescent, they have now become the National Theatre of fun. Jon Naismith has been the producer of the show since 1991. For more information about I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue visit www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clue.