The Unabridged Uxbridge English Dictionary: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue [Paperback]

Do words fail you? Never again, once you've become the proud owner ofThe Complete Uxbridge English Dictionary.

Every word has a meaning, but over the years those meanings change. Dip into these helpfully illustrated pages and you'll find many of the words you use every day without ever realising that their up-to-date definition is something entirely different.

Words like 'bunny' (rather like a bun), or 'cherish' (rather like a chair), 'Cardiology' (the study of knitwear) or 'buggery' (the study of insects), 'Venezuala' (a gondola with a harpoon) or 'Norway' (a Geordie exclamation of surprise), 'ivy' (the Roman for four ) or 'faculty' (cockney for there's no more PG Tips ).

Thanks toThe Complete Uxbridge English Dictionaryyou can now use familiar, everyday words in total confidence, fully appraised of their latest meanings. Happy wording!

Graeme Garden (Author)
Graeme Garden is one third of the Goodies. He is a comedy legend.

Tim Brooke-Taylor (Author)
Tim was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, and studied at various schools in Buxton and Winchester before beginning an Economics and Law degree course at Cambridge University. In 1963, he became President of Footlights, the revue club in which he wrote and performed with Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Jonathan Lynn and others. He toured extensively with the revue,Cambridge Circus, before moving into television.

Tim on Telly
Tim's television credits includeOn The Braden Beat,The Frost Programme(as editor),At Last the 1948 Show,Me and My Girland, of course,The Goodies.

From stage to page
Tim has also enjoyed considerable success on the stage and has written three books,Rule Britannia,Tim Brooke-Taylor's Cricket BoxandTim Brooke-Taylor's Golf Bag, as well as contributing toThe Little Book of Mornington CrescentandThe Almost Totally Comlă!