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Adam Jacot de Boinod
Adam Jacot de Boinod
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BIOGRAPHY

Adam Jacot de Boinod is a British author and journalist. Among his many writings include The Meaning of Tingo, The Wonder of Whiffling, and I Never Knew There Was a Word for It. 

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Cockney
Cockney, dialect of the English language traditionally spoken by working-class Londoners. Cockney is also often used to refer to anyone from London—in particular, from its East End. The word Cockney has had a pejorative connotation, originally deriving from cokenay, or cokeney, a late Middle…
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Publications (3)
I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
I Never Knew There Was a Word For It (August 2010)
By Adam Jacot de Boinod

From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. All they need is this book!

This bumper volume gathers all three of Adam Jacot de Boinod's acclaimed books about language - The Wonder of Whiffling,...

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The Wonder of Whiffling (and Other Extraordinary Words in the English Language)
The Wonder of Whiffling (and Other Extraordinary Words in the English Language) (September 2009)
By Adam Jacot de Boinod

Fresh from his adventures hunting down exotic words in languages all over the world, author of the bestselling The Meaning of TingoAdam Jacot de Boinod set himself the task of exploring the beauties, oddities and downright hilarities of the language that started off his love affair with words - English.

TheWonder of Whifflingis a hugely enjoyable, surprising and rewarding tour around the language of the British Isles (with plenty of fine coinages from our English-speaking...

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The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World
The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World (2006)
By Adam Jacot de Boinod
A garden of delights for the word obsessed: a funny, amazing, and even profound world tour of the best of all those strange words that don't have a precise English equivalent, the ones that tell us so much about other cultures' priorities and preoccupations and expand our minds.

Did you know that people in Bolivia have a word that means "I was rather too drunk last night and it's all their fault"? That there's no Italian equivalent for the word "blue"? That the Dutch word for skimming stones...
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