Mizzled
Roy Harris, 21 February 1985
Longman Dictionary of the English Language
by Randolph Quirk.
Longman, 1875 pp., £14.95, October 1984,0 582 55511 6 Show More
by Randolph Quirk.
Longman, 1875 pp., £14.95, October 1984,
The Private Lives of English Words
by Louis Heller, Alexander Humez and Malcah Dror.
Routledge, 333 pp., £12.95, May 1984,0 7102 0006 4 Show More
by Louis Heller, Alexander Humez and Malcah Dror.
Routledge, 333 pp., £12.95, May 1984,
The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words
by Bill Bryson.
Viking, 173 pp., £7.95, April 1984,0 7139 1653 2 Show More
by Bill Bryson.
Viking, 173 pp., £7.95, April 1984,
The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
by Joseph Shipley.
Johns Hopkins, 637 pp., $39.95, May 1984,0 8018 3004 4 Show More
by Joseph Shipley.
Johns Hopkins, 637 pp., $39.95, May 1984,
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
by Eric Partidge and Paul Beale.
Routledge, 1400 pp., £45, May 1984,0 7100 9820 0 Show More
by Eric Partidge and Paul Beale.
Routledge, 1400 pp., £45, May 1984,
“... On 10 May 1933 an undergraduate at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, wrote in her diary a description of the clothes she was wearing on that sultry summer’s day. The description includes the phrase blue celanese trollies. The diary entry in question was not published until 1984, by which time the diarist, Barbara Pym, had become a cult figure in English literary circles ... ”
