Neither Nowt Nor Summat
Title | Neither Nowt Nor Summat PDF eBook |
Author | Ian McMillan |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-06-25 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1473503213 |
I’m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I’m going to start here, in this village, and radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don’t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn’t. I’m going to confirm or deny the clichés, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t’ before every word they use... If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian McMillan would be it. He’s regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, and southerners comment archly on his ‘fruity Yorkshire brogue’. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotland, making him, as he puts it, only ‘half tyke’. So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough? To try to understand what this means Ian embarks on a journey around the county, starting in the village has lived in his entire life. With contributions from the Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train guard, Mad Geoff the barber and four Saddleworth council workers looking for a mattress, Ian tries to discover what lies at the heart of Britain’s most distinct county and its people, as well as finding out whether the Yorkshire Pudding is worthy of becoming a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Site, if Harrogate is really, really, in Yorkshire and, of course, who knocks up the knocker up?
A Dictionary of North East Dialect
Title | A Dictionary of North East Dialect PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Griffiths |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | 602 |
Release | 2010-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1458784843 |
As entertaining as it is informative, this dictionary offers records and explanations of a northern English dialect. The research presents information about words that go back as far as the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings as well as those present in today's vernacular. Ideal for anyone interested in English etymology, this reference is thorough and essential.
Inferno
Title | Inferno PDF eBook |
Author | Dante Alighieri |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2011-08-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1446484483 |
Welcome to Hell. One evening, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan, where Dante witnesses the strange and gruesome sufferings of the damned. Written while Dante was in exile and under threat of being burned at the stake, this dramatic, frightening and, at times, sardonically humorous vision of Hell still has the power to shock and horrify
The Journal of the American Dental Association
Title | The Journal of the American Dental Association PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1212 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Dentistry |
ISBN |
Yorkshire North Riding
Title | Yorkshire North Riding PDF eBook |
Author | Oswald Henry Harland |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 460 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | North Riding of Yorkshire (England). |
ISBN |
The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
Title | The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 734 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
The Shadow of a Crime
Title | The Shadow of a Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Hall Caine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
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