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The Dictionary of Posh
The Dictionary of Posh

The Dictionary of Posh

HUMOR

112 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Cloth

Cloth, $29.95 (US $29.95)

Publication Date: May 2020

ISBN 9781846893049

Rights: US

Quiller Publishing (May 2020)

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Overview

An essential guide to the (ab)use of many English words by the decidedly up-market, and the resultant—and endangered—language they speak: Posh

This is a right royal comedy of errors. Hidden within normal English is a separate language still spoken by those born with silver spoons in their mouths. It’s called Posh. A word of English can be spelt the same but mean something completely different in Posh. If you say the word “Mention” in English, people will understand “Remark upon;" but in Posh this means a large house. Say “Ace” and speakers of Posh will think you are referring to a cold thing one’s butler puts in one’s G&T. This book will help you learn Posh, often with side-splitting consequences. To aid rapid mastery, helpful examples of the various words in the dictionary are given in context. These helpful examples collectively add up to a story within the dictionary—The Fall and Rise of an Important Family—the sorry saga of riches, ruin and redemption that this book really is.

Author Biography

Hugh Kellett studied languages at Oxford and has been playing around with words in London advertising agencies most of his life. He is the author of Glitzch! 

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