Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780330281218
ISBN: 0330281216
Label: Pan Books
Manufacturer: Pan Books
Number Of Pages: 191
Publication Date: November 11, 1983
Publisher: Pan Books
Studio: Pan Books

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Rating: - The Meaningless of Liff.
In `The Meaning of Liff' Douglas Adams and John Lloyd have expanded the English language by noting down the meaningless names that lie underused on signpost and attribute new purpose to them covering the common experiences we have yet to assign a word to.

Depford(n).
The Disappointment one feels when our favourite author puts out a book not worthy of their name.

Twinning(n).
The nagging sensation the reader feels that he has been swindled out of five pounds that ... Read More

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Rating: - Pure joy
If you love words and curious sounding place names, and the funny little foibles of existence, if you love silliness, then you must read this book!

Some people have described it as wordplay, but it's not wordplay in the sense of puns. It's playing with words in the sense of having fun with the silly, illogical images that the words somehow evoke, and it is the capturing of little things that you never think about but which could definitely use a name of their own.

I've only ... Read More

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Rating: - The original, ground-breaking pocket editon of LIFF
Quite simply one of the very cleverest books. Have you ever read a dictionary? Did you remember much? No?
Well, this effect extends to TMOL (The Meaning Of Liff), because it is a 'dictionary' like no other.
All those needed but un-named words that describe everyday situations (standing in the kitchen, wondering why you are there = "Woking") have been listed and described without coining a single word.
By re-using place names no new words have been created, only new meanings. ... Read More

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Rating: - First draft to The Deeper Meaning of Liff, save your pennies
I am deeply disappointed that both books are still in circulation. The Deeper Meaning of Liff (TDMOF) is an updated edition of The Meaning of Liff (TMOF), it contains all the definitions found in TMOF and a significant number more. So why oh why is TMOF still being sold???? Don't make the same mistake I did, I bought both together.

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Rating: - Essential reading.
First read the original version on the York to London train in April 1984, and by Stevenage was reading it aloud to my half of the carriage. My four children have been brought up on scullets, duddos, aboynes, goosnarge, kent expressions and, of course, clixbys. I have frequently been threatened with matricide for being exessively spreakly, but have never been accused of a ditherington. My husband has a fondness for my budbys, and has had consirable experience of poonas. I've had plenty of episodes of ... Read More

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