On The Tip Of My Tongue

Author : Tom Read Wilson
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780711276697

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In On the Tip of My Tongue, logophile and television star Tom Read Wilson takes a delicious dive into the etymology and usage of words, euphemisms and bon mots. Written with his trademark sparkling wit, the star of Celebs Go Dating and self-avowed word-lover presents a hilarious and fascinating guide which aims to leave you never lost for words again. Divided into sections spanning dating, personal development, show business, compliments, curses, and how to dodge offence while speaking your mind, this book will equip you with the words needed to navigate all the situations of modern life with style and grace. From treppenwitz (the German word for the feeling of a missed riposte in an argument) to Callipygian (a 17th Century word referring to someone with well shaped buttocks) to JOMO (the Joy of Missing Out), this guide covers a wide and varied range of words, from those with roots in antiquity to new ones being coined in the present day. With Tom’s wit and lifelong love of words by your side, you'll always be able to pick the perfect word, phrase or quip, whether you are trying to understand the many metaphors for sex or trying to tell your mother you love her. This is a delightful and hilarious etymological solution to the dilemmas and conundrums of modern life and a must-read for every budding vocabularian.

Author : Emmanuelle Pagano
Publisher : Peirene Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908670557

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Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano Pdf

Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isn't your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn't going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in summer and the sequins found between the pages of a borrowed novel will make your fortune. Pagano's stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed of a rural French community with honesty and humour. A superb, cumulative collection from a unique French voice. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: This is a spellbinding web of stories about people on the periphery. Pagano makes rural France her subject matter. She invokes the closeness of a local community and the links between the inhabitants' lives. But then she reminds us how little we know of each other. 'Devastatingly beautiful.' Le Soir, Belgium 'A treasure hunt that you can follow from title to title...fine-tipped drawings of little bits of the world that attach themselves to each other imperceptibly.' Xavier Houssin, Le Monde 'Pagano succeeds because of the range of her insight and the skill with which she shifts register: from wistfulness to blunt force, or from fantasy to naturalism.' Chris Power, The Guardian 'Endlessly beautiful and poignant.' Le Monde books of the year 2012 'With animal writing, Emmanuelle Pagano invites herself to the side of rebels and solitaries.' Marine Landrot, Télérama

Author : David Gentle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781408876671

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On the Tip of My Tongue by David Gentle Pdf

Who is Yogi Bear's girlfriend? What links gazpacho soup with revenge? List the nine activities which are traditionally forbidden in public swimming pools. What does the Mona Lisa have in her left hand? List the ten ways in which a batsman may be dismissed in a game of cricket. What links the words "almost" and "biopsy"? On the Tip of My Tongue will take you from the natural world to notorious ships and novelty records, from the arts to advertising slogans and airport codes, from science and sport to scandals and space shuttles, from historical events to Hogwarts and Hitchcock and from popular culture to platonic solids and poker hands. It's a quiz book with a difference. As well as attempting to answer thousands of brain-twisting questions, you'll be asked to recall as many items as you can from a list, and to solve the hidden links between groups of questions. While you're struggling to find the right responses, you'll also be reading anecdotes, comments and curious facts. It can be played with family, friends, enemies - or on your own. But however you want to play it, you're sure to suffer the hopeless frustration of finding the next answer is ... On the Tip of My Tongue.

Author : Cindy Hutson,Jen Karetnick
Publisher : Story Farm LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0990520544

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From the Tip of My Tongue by Cindy Hutson,Jen Karetnick Pdf

Inspired by Hutson's expansive culinary journeys, from the delis and restaurants of Hutson's New Jersey hometown, through her time as a charter-boat captain, to the streets and mountainsides of her beloved, adopted Jamaica, these dishes offer highly flavorful fare that ranges from casual meals that Hutson's family enjoys at home to the creative and exotic plates that she, Delius and manager/daughter Ashley serve in their three restaurants.

Author : Trezza Azzopardi
Publisher : Seren
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781721070

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The Tip of My Tongue by Trezza Azzopardi Pdf

Azzopardi transforms a medieval heroine who won't be silenced into brave 1970s girl from downtown Splott who always seems to get the last word. The original Enid defends her misguided knight husband by warning him of danger, even though forbidden to speak. The new young Enid is also unlikely to respect a gagging order. The Tip of My Tongue is the ninth in Seren's series of ten New Stories from the Mabinogion.

Author : Tom Read Wilson
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780711276673

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On the Tip of My Tongue by Tom Read Wilson Pdf

On the Tip of My Tongue is a witty and chatty curated list of words for everyday life encounters.

Author : Austin O'Toole
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573650861

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On the Tip of My Tongue by Austin O'Toole Pdf

Austin O'Toole Mystery, TYA/Children's Theatre Characters: 4 male, 8 female, plus offstage voices Exterior Set Two boys, harassed by summer chores, decide to run away from home. They stop to rest at a clearing in the woods. The boys are awakened by hand puppet characters who issue mysterious warnings of trouble ahead. Soon the boys are surrounded by easily recognizable villains, heroes and heroines from children's literature, who mistake them for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Unable to escape, they undergo a farcical trial in which they fail to prove they aren't Tom and Huck. Longing for home, they accept their fates, but are saved in a challenge which proves their true identities. And, they are discovered to be the heroes of a brand new story being written at this very moment!

Author : Jerry Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736980416

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On the Tip of Her Tongue by Jerry Roth Pdf

Author : Irene M. Franck,David M. Brownstone
Publisher : Signet
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-10-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0451162811

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On the Tip of Your Tongue by Irene M. Franck,David M. Brownstone Pdf

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Author : Alan S. Brown
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781841694443

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The Tip of the Tongue State by Alan S. Brown Pdf

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Random House UK
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Scotland
ISBN : UCSC:32106015964486

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Robert Crawford's new collection is an exhilarating celebration of the world he lives in. Beginning with a group of moving, renewing love poems to his wife, the book builds into a polyphonic hymn to life in all its aspects. There is a powerful sense of communion and connection in The Tip of My Tongue. Crawford embraces the rhythms of the whole circumference--from Perth, Scotland, to Perth, Australia. These are poems that are convincingly earthed in the land and the language yet unafraid of spiritual, even religious notes; richly lyrical and passionate yet shot through with a humour and a vitality that is utterly engaging.

Author : Rita F. Snowden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835802833

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On the Tip of My Tongue by Rita F. Snowden Pdf

Author : Wen Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780595145850

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Tip of My Tongue by Wen Smith Pdf

Like many “language buffs,” I recall no time when my world was without words. It was my fortunate lot to follow their beguiling tunes until toys turned into tools, and I became a wordsmith—writer and teacher. The essays in this book are digressions on the light side of that career, a continuing game of word play, a motley cluster of errant shots with my grammar wedge, the twists and turns of things on the tip of my tongue.

Author : Faith Calagna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1983145742

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On the Tip of My Tongue by Faith Calagna Pdf

A twelve-year-old author's songs which have been converted to poems about social injustice, expression, religion, and other topics from which people refrain.

Author : Peter Brook
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1636701779

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Tip of the Tongue by Peter Brook Pdf

A thoughtful and deeply personal book by a master theatre-maker. In Tip of the Tongue, Peter Brook takes a charming, playful, and wise look at topics such as the subtle, telling differences between French and English, and the many levels on which we can appreciate the works of Shakespeare. Brook also revisits his seminal concept of the "empty space," considering how theatre--and the world--have changed over the span of his long and distinguished career. Threaded throughout with intimate and revealing stories from Brook's own life, Tip of the Tongue is a short but sparkling gift from one of the greatest artists of recent times. Tip of the Tongue is part of Peter Brook's "Reflections" trilogy, along with The Quality of Mercy and Playing by Ear.