Author: Douglas KynochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Doric Proverbs and Sayings
Author: Douglas KynochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Concise Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors
Author: Peter Richard WilkinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415430844
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. It is the result of a lifetime of work on dialect and metaphor and gives an overview of the folk wisdom expressed in figurative expressions. The author draws on his extensive contact with the rural cultures of Dorset, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire, but has also included a range of sayings from North America, Australia, Scotland and other English speaking countries. With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse long after your original query has been answered.
Concise Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors
Author: Dick WilkinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113408529X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. It is the result of a lifetime of work on dialect and metaphor and gives an overview of the folk wisdom expressed in figurative expressions. The author draws on his extensive contact with the rural cultures of Dorset, Cornwall, Yorkshire and Lancashire, but has also included a range of sayings from North America, Australia, Scotland and other English speaking countries. With revised contents and an improved index to make individual entries easier to find, the Concise can be used to check the meaning and the origin of an expression or to avoid mixed metaphors, anachronisms and incongruities. It is a joy to browse long after your original query has been answered.
Doric Sayings
Author: DOUGLAS. KYNOCHPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912147700
Category : Proverbs, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collated from various sources including Helen Beaton's 1925 At the Back o' Benachie and Professor Alexander Fenton's academic collection of the sayings of Aberdeenshire parishes in the 1950s, Doric Sayings is a cornucopia of Doric wit an wisdom, some of it in the form of rhyme and riddle. Couthie comments about everyday life; caustic remarks about the neighbours; philosophical reflections on work or the weather. Who could fail to be re-assured to know that aathing his an eyn but a mealie pudden his twa?
Start the Clock and Cue the Band - A Life in Television
Author: David LloydPublisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1784610992
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Start the Clock and Cue the Band - A Life in Television is the autobiography of David Lloyd who spent his career as the director of television programmes. His career took him to many places, from Aberystwyth to London, from Norwich to Aberdeen, from Cardiff to Europe, America, Israel, Africa and Japan. He is now settled in his retirement back home in Ceredigion.
Select Proverbs of All Nations
Author: John WadeProverbium
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Yearbook of international proverb scholarship.
Waterstone's Guide to Scottish Books
Author: Nick RennisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781902603001
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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Author: Margaret Aitken